I have been a busy bee with the gardens pulling out the old and putting in new.
Garden #1
Everything has been harvested. I only have a few onions I used, froze the leeks and my strawberries has been transplanted to pots. I have it covered with plastic to solarize the soil. I covered this one on Wednesday 7-18
Garden #2
This is about in the same condition as garden #1, everything has been harvested and is pulled out. I harvested the Coriander and my Stevia. I have the Stevia drying to use the leaves for sweetener. This bed was covered on Wednesday 7-4.
Garden #3
My tomato plants are growing wild and bearing fruit. I'm still waiting for some peppers and I just planted some cherry tomatoes where the green beans used to be. I pulled out the beans, because they stopped producing green beans, I was getting white beans, really strange, so I pulled them out thought they maybe diseased. I planted Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes, which just sprouted through the ground.
Garden #4
I have Yukan Gold Potatoes, Carwile Virginia Peanuts, Suyo Long Cucumber and Rosa Bianca Eggplant.
My insect barriers are really getting tattered now. I want to use something stronger since I only keep the gardens covered at night, so it doesn't matter if it doesn't let the sunlight though. I'm having to pull out my organic arsenal even with the insect barriers at night. I used 1 Tbsp Neem oil with a 1 tsp Dr Bonner's peppermint soap mixed together in half gallon of water to stop the white leaf hoppers which were getting out of hand and hopeful repel the squash bugs, which I have been squashing when seen. I crushed their eggs on the trellis and the birds are still visiting the garden, so I hope they keep the rest under control. I have my Spinosad too which I have used once and seem to take care of the couple worms I saw. The summer time is an endless bug battle! I don't like using neem too much, because it stinks and not only repeals the squash bug, but the lady bug disappear too. Happy Gardening!
