We found these gnarly bugs and their eggs on our zucchini. It seemed that they had managed to kill one of them already. We spent a good 15 minutes going over each plant, pulling off the bugs and killing them and scraping off the eggs.
Pretty well:
My first thought was Already? Then I remembered the disbelief in everyones’ eyes when we answered We planted six seedlings to their respective variations on the question. Now I understand why they all told us that we’re screwed. currently playing: Junior Boys “Count Souvenirs” (live)
Let us start off the weekend with no agenda. Let’s do nothing and then reflect on how much we got done… Holy crap but it all seems to pile up at once, don’t it? Pete was commenting earlier in the week about being burnt out and it being “only Tuesday” — and (in short) I […]
About 3-4 hours of weeding so far this week and it still seems like they’re growing faster than we can pull them out. But we’re literally starting to see some fruits for our labor.
Second round of fertilizer for the tomatoes, cucumbers, and carrots. After the weeding. Still lots of weeding to do. (Tomorrow evening…) We’ll see what happens with the fertilizer; if we’re getting good results without it, we may not need to continue after this first bag is spent. We lost a zucchini plant; that brings us […]
Got an early start, headed back over to the garden and took advantage of the overcast-but-not-precipitating sky to finish up some more weeding and get the rest of round one of the straw mulch down. All the rain from yesterday left the soil in quite a damp state. This was (of course) fine by us […]
Garden run today. After dropping off my brother at the bus station, A. & I headed over to Gardner’s to pick up two bales of straw to use as mulch. We had been by the garden site last night to show Mark and we noticed a ton of weeds. So first things first, we needed […]