I bought a bottle of insecticidal soap last night and sprayed the hell out of my stink bugs and other nasty garden critters. Hopefully that does the trick on the tomatoes and squash plants. If not, this means war…
In less depressing news, I pulled up the first onion of the year. It was approximately the size of an orange, which is a vast improvement over the ping-pong ball sized onions I had last summer. J
Stupid bugs. I looked out my kitchen window to see a big beautiful pink tomato…only to walk out to the garden and discover it had big gaping holes in it. Can anyone recommend a natural insecticide? I really hate to spray, but I don’t have the time to hand-pick 5 bazillion bugs out of my plants this summer…
Pulled the first (of hopefully many) Green Zebra tomato off the vine this week, and added it to my lunchtime salad today. I shared a slice with the two tomato “experts” in my office, who both declared it quite tasty. I must agree – although yellow and green on the outside, and very green on the inside, it is nonetheless very ripe indeed and has a wonderful flavor. Yea for heirloom tomatoes!
Also did some extensive weeding this weekend. The sweet pea vines had yellowed and dried, so those came out, along with piles and piles of grass and weeds. Eek. I need to be more vigilant on my weed-watching, I guess…
I knew those plums were too good to be true. The vast majority of the ones the DH picked are infected with plum curculio larvae. Yucky. I was going to bake a pie last night, so I started washing, peeling, and pitting. After 4-5 little white wormy-thingies, I gave up.
The DH brought in a large bowl of plums this week from our 3-year-old tree. They’re small, but definitely ripe. Weird, huh? I swear it’s not time for plums. Oh, well. I think our are going to become a nice plum pie… Mmmm…
