No news on the square foot garden last weekend as I went to London for some LEO Project related activities.

However, the square foot garden kept going without me sitting next to it and telling it exciting stories such as ‘Jack and the beanstalk’ (talk to your plants to make them grow better).

My trip to the UK was fruitful, but many things didn’t go as planned. Thankfully I did manage to prepare two huge boxes containing a server computer, children toys, stamps and some other handy stuff to be shipped to Sri Lanka.

Clearly the square foot garden didn’t miss me at all. On my return I noticed how much the plants had grown, but…

Lice! Mean little lice wandered into our square foot paradise to destroy it!

I tried spraying with an extract from tomato plant leaves. It should get rid of the invaders, but it hasn’t been very convincing. Tomorrow I’ll try the garlic spray which is said to work better.

So, what was I thinking? Oh yes, lets construct a second square foot garden, but this time use wood from pallets.

Only to discover that those pallets don’t break apart easily! These things are very well built and it takes a long time to pull them apart.

I tried using a hammer; one with a special ending to pull nails out.


I tried Karate.. actually worked pretty well, but hurt my foot.

I tried reasoning with the pallet, but to no avail.

In the end I decided to take a break and try again the next day.

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