Posted in garden, tagged garden, scarecrow on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
scarecrow – preemptive measures, as last year at harvest time, birds attacked our corn.
chiles –possibly canning salsa?
tomatoes – finally turning red- think the “haircut” encouraged them.
cucumbers -they survived the cucumber beetles, just barely though. Cuke beetles are still there (see photo) but their numbers have dwindled.
Posted in garden, tagged garden, green beans on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My niece, Zoe came for a visit. She seems to be carrying on with the “Hoche” line of organic gardening. I set her out with a bowl and a little demo on picking green beans and off she went. She picked a couple dozen beans of similar size with no excessive stem attached.
Posted in garden, tagged bugs, cucumber beetles, garden, pests on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some photos of my garden. I’ll share the good stuff first. My complaining about cucumber beetles follows.
This year has been tough on the gardens of Northern Minnesota. We had a cool, damp beginning to our “summer”. Everything is a bit behind. That is just fine.
But, to have these darn cucumber [...]
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