July 14, 2007

garden overhaul

A lot of the garden needs more water. It's not the frequency of the watering, but the amount - the water wasn't getting really really deep like it needs to be.

All the squash plants have been attacked and basically destroyed by squash vine borer bugs. They're gross. I haven't intentionally not used pesticides, but if I continue in that vein it looks like I can use this BT stuff to kill them.

The tomato plants are getting ready to produce, but my father-in-law is concerned that they may have blight. We'll see.

After making a big salad with the lettuce, there wasn't much left and it wasn't doing very good anyways so we pulled up what was left and re-planted with all the seed I had left.

We're going to give the green beans a chance. There are a lot of plants and they're getting ready to sprout.

I'll be watering this week with some Miracle-Gro plant food that you spray through an attachment to the hose.

Posted by smc at July 14, 2007 08:21 PM
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that's a pretty gross little critter, good luck orkin.

Posted by: kg at July 17, 2007 12:14 PM