Exercise in Futility

The garden was sprayed with BT (for caterpillars) Tuesday with plans to spray with sulfur (for powdery mildew) yesterday. Yesterday the rains came. Not enough to make a lot of difference, just enough to wash the BT off of the plants. The garden is in a transitional stage and needs a lot of work.

It still needs to be sprayed with BT and Sulfur. Tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are growing so fast that they need tying up almost every day. The spring crop beds need to be cleaned out and reworked. The zucchini and patty-pan squash have succumbed to something and need to be pulled off and replanted. These dead plants will go in the gray trash barrel, not the compost. The replacement plants will be planted in the spring crop beds, to avoid re-infection.

The spaghetti squash is ripening fast. A few fruits seem to have pickle-worms. Last year we got the worms out and ate those right away instead of trying to keep them. This year is the best year we ever for spaghetti squash so there are way too many to eat. Freezing will be tried. Freezing squash of any type usually results in a bag of water, but that is better than wasting them.

Tuesday the bees appeared to be getting ready to swarm. A nuc box was placed near the hives just in case. Yesterday’s rain seemed to have calmed them down.





David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/