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Gardening update
Aug. 31st, 2010 06:45 amHarvested five cucumbers and one small tomato from the garden over the weekend, with more cucumbers on the way. Its been a very good year for cucumbers for us, after barely getting three all year in '09, but a poor year for tomatoes and peppers, and I still have yet to harvest one full-size zucchini.
What hasn't helped: we recently started to have an infestation of tomato hornworms on our plants - found two on our bigger plants three weeks ago, and I found four on our hanging basket ones yesterday. All of them have/have had parasitic wasp cocoons on them, though, so I've left them alone. The wasps did kill the first batch I noticed in a few days, so I'm hoping they'll hatch quickly and finish off the ones on the hanging tomatoes.
I planted our winter garden in the raised bed near the kitchen. I have in three short rows of lettuce, and behind it a trench of kale. That bed doesn't get a lot of direct sun in the summer, but as the leaves come down it gets a lot more light, so it should be a decent place for that.
Also mowed the lawn for the first time in months over the weekend. We were driving around in St. Mary's County to the south and noticed how dry and brown much of the corn looks - there just hasn't been a lot of rain this summer, and that's been reflecting in how slow the lawn has been growing. Hurricane Earl could change the rainfall amounts quickly, depending on its track, and that of the storm right behind it - should know more about where its going by tomorrow.
What hasn't helped: we recently started to have an infestation of tomato hornworms on our plants - found two on our bigger plants three weeks ago, and I found four on our hanging basket ones yesterday. All of them have/have had parasitic wasp cocoons on them, though, so I've left them alone. The wasps did kill the first batch I noticed in a few days, so I'm hoping they'll hatch quickly and finish off the ones on the hanging tomatoes.
I planted our winter garden in the raised bed near the kitchen. I have in three short rows of lettuce, and behind it a trench of kale. That bed doesn't get a lot of direct sun in the summer, but as the leaves come down it gets a lot more light, so it should be a decent place for that.
Also mowed the lawn for the first time in months over the weekend. We were driving around in St. Mary's County to the south and noticed how dry and brown much of the corn looks - there just hasn't been a lot of rain this summer, and that's been reflecting in how slow the lawn has been growing. Hurricane Earl could change the rainfall amounts quickly, depending on its track, and that of the storm right behind it - should know more about where its going by tomorrow.
