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Wednesday, August 3, 2022

2022-08-03

This was my "hour" in the garden yesterday...  I did not take pics of the squash beetle experiment, but I did squirt them with soapy neem water and a cursory look this morning shows no bugs crawling around.  Whether eggs will hatch remains TBD...

   We're starting to get cucumbers!  They get too big quickly; ideal would be to do a daily lap and catch them when they are young and tender!

A mole/gopher mound in an aisle...

...obscured by tall clover

clover could be sickled and tops used to mulch/seed a bare aisle area

A bulbing fennel!  We are open to indulging these somewhat

non-bulbing fennel.  Not popular.

While trimming, training, trellising, weeding, mulching, I am surprised to discover beans are starting!  

 


Winter Watering Protocol

 Some buckets have been placed out to fill with water.  The goal is to capture water, obviously, but the hazard is that they will freeze and...