What a great way to be greeted by the day…
Helllllooooo Jalapeno
What a great way to be greeted by the day…
Category Archives: My Garden
Here Come the Cosmonauts
I maybe could have waited one more day but was eager to welcome them into my kitchen. There’s less splittage than I saw on the Oregon Springs.
Thanks Again to the Garden
And CSA (for the watermelon)
Mushroom Invaders
These little buggers appeared next to some beets I have growing in a wooden box. Note the leaves of grass growing right next to/within the beet leaves. Like I said, unless they pose a take-over threat, I generally leave them alone. These guys were growing so close to the beets that pulling them out risked damaging the beets themselves. Voila! Weed problem solved!
The Good
I found these four Oregon Springs waiting for me in the garden this morning.
All Green Flying Bug
I have discovered that if you spend long enough and watch closely enough, you will find out what you need to know about your garden. This morning, I went to check on the peach tree and pluck the hopeless ones from the branches. After about ten minutes of doing this, I finally spotted an all green flying insect (she’s in the pic above but you can’t really see her). She was nearly perfectly camouflaged with the unripened peaches. I don’t know if this is what’s plaguing my tree, but it’s the first possible predator I’ve seen after the ants. When I went to Shannon’s on Friday (biding my time till the second plane was leaving JFK for N’awlins), I was told that the peaches with the gooey stuff coming out of them definitely have to go. There will be no eating them. I wondered whether they would go bad on their own, turning brown and soft, if I didn’t pick them. I have seen some like that (see pic above of “The Bad”). Joe at Shannon’s said that it was a sign of a bug who had gotten into the fruit. If I understand what he said correctly, the gooey stuff is the juice of the flesh seeped out after the bug enters or leaves the fruit. I doubt it’s the flying green thing which looked like she was happy to just hang outside the fruit and pick at it a little.
I Got Globally Warmed
And I am not alone.
Victims (not quite casualties but close): hostas and carrots and maybe the cukes too but the latter did produce. They just slowed down during and after the wicked heatwave we had.
So I made it to The Big Easy. But my troubles are not all at an end, my friend. I don’t like what I’m hearing. I met a gardener from Oklahoma who said they’ve been without rain for about two months. Said she went away for two days and came back to find her petunias and other flowers all wilted or dead. Another friend outside Chicago put as her Facebook status that someone had murdered her cilantro (I think that same killer was on the loose in my herb garden). When I was talking to a fellow reveler in Carmel, IN a couple weeks ago, she had to stop mid-sentence because it started to rain, something they hadn’t seen in many weeks (may also have been a couple months). She and her father commented that a lot of people would be stating out their windows at that moment. All other folks, too, across the country have been telling me their global warming woes. Hope about you?
QUESTION: what’s your take on this wacky weather? Are we getting globally warmed? What does your garden have to say about it? Are you changing your approach in response? Will this change what you do next year? How so?
Go ahead … Gimme the dirt!
More Peach Tree Trouble
Could it be ants who have done this damage to the leaves? Close examination of the branches identifies a few small reddish brown ants but no other sign of predators.
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