Garden update

Posted on July 18, 2006 at 11:50

We've had some things from our garden already!  The pickling cucumbers (which I don't pickle, we just eat them fresh) are doing awesome and taste wonderful!  We've already had about 10 of them.  We've harvested around 50 green beans already and there are more ready to pick.  Our romaine lettuce is great and we have a few heads that are overgrown...we need to eat a lot of salad this week.  Let's see..oh our summer squash and zucchini are doing well, we've had about 5 of each so far.  Our red leaf spinach is doing great, radishes almost all eaten (dh and oldest dd only eat these) and we're going to plant another row of them and see if we get another harvest...we should.

Something has been eating my basil very badly and I put soapy dishwater over it and it's not helping much.  All my other herbs are growing great and I've been using them in my cooking. 

Waiting patiently for our tomatoes (have lots, but all green still) and our eggplant...nothing yet with those.

We've had a heat wave here this week, but tonight storms have come through and hopefully cooled things down.  I love it when it rains because I don't have to water the garden!

Although Chandler and Zarek have been great about doing the watering for me lately.  Well we're doing VBS this week and I'm the K teacher, I'm SO tired, I'm not used to waking up early, so I better get to bed.

OH I think I forgot to say that a while back my daughter Alexis and I made strawberry-rhubarb jam.  I may have already wrote about this...but just in case.  It came out great, it was hot, sticky work though, but I love seeing the kids eat my homemade jam!  Strawberries from store, rhubarb from our garden. 

Sprays for plants

Posted by HarvestMom on July 19, 2006 at 09:37 - Link

Hi there,
I love trying to figure out what is eating my plants! Or killing them! Try this on your Basil. Boil one pint of water and remove from heat. Add the grated rind from a citrus fruit, lemon is great and smells good, or an orange or grapefruit. Steep for several hours or overnight. Strain through cheesecloth and pour into a spray bottle. Aphids, or other soft bodied critters don't like it. Even ants...but the smell is heavenly to us! I always try this first when I don't have a clue what's nibbling on my plants. :)
Blessings, Theresa

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Posted by southernbelle on August 4, 2006 at 11:00 - Link

All that yummy stuff coming from your garden is wonderful, isn't it?!! It's amazing how your garden is just beginning to come in and ours just got mowed down until next Spring!