Weekly Garden Update
August 02, 2008
Here's what the garden looks like this week:
The cucumber plants are essentially dead. Mom is planning to pull them out sometime this week.
The yellow squash plant is fading fast as well, but there's a few more squash growing there:
The Japanese eggplant plant looks pretty good, though and has several eggplants on it. Now I just need a recipe for them!
The bell pepper plants look fantastic and there are tons of green and red bell peppers:
The tomato plants are huge and we're finally starting to get some ripe ones:
The zucchini plants are sad and pathetic and covered with white and green bugs. I have no idea what they are, but they're very resilient. Mom has been spraying them with insecticidal soap - both store bought and home made - since they were planted, but these bugs just don't seem to die! Anyone have any idea what they are, and how to kill them???
*sigh* We've decided that when we do our garden next year - providing we decide to even have a garden next year! - we're going to spray the plants immediately upon bringing them home, even before planting, and hopefully kill any little bugs or larvae or anything that might already be on them.