gladiolus and of course came in with some zucchini. The Cherokee
Purples are begining to change color and the tomato horn worms are
right on schedule. While outside I disposed of 4 of them, each one
making me shudder with the creeps. I also discovered that squirrels
had eaten into the ears of half of my corn!
Which brings me to some of my gardening disappoinments so far this
year. The mystery sunflower pest has found the 'elve's blend'
sunflowers in the back and all but wiped them out. Aside from coddling
my broccoli with row covers, loopers snuck in and wiped them out for
the second year in a row. Dear future self, let someone else grow
broccoli. Another pest has cleaned the leaves right off my basil. And
finally, a lot of my carrots are weird. Half have been awesome but the
other half have a lot of bifurication and get stumpy. I know they're
not hitting rocks because this bed is so fluffly and rock free. Some
bug likes eating all the fronds off their greens, maybe that's related?
Next year, no corn, no broccoli, more glads, and find some sort of
spray for basil and sunflowers.
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