Will and Emery were parading the grounds of the glorious, green Monmouth College Educational Garden today and stricken with grief and horror at the site of a half-eaten baby zuchinni! Upon further inspection, they found the gaping holes were induced by a large amount of SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLES!
Perhaps you are wondering what this creature looks like. Well, folks, here is the culprit:
Perhaps you are wondering what this creature looks like. Well, folks, here is the culprit:
As you can see, it looks like the demon from the planet Zeptune!!! We are currently investigating safe and organic measures for ultimate destruction of the invertebrate-that-shall-not-be-named....we will keep you posted on the matter.
In other news, the green peppers are looking quite fabulous. We have to make sure that we do not continue robbing the cradle. A week of untouched growth will provide us with juicy, succulent, healthy, vegetarianly meaty, and bountiful peppers. The Alpine strawberries are blooming again (Yay, god, for ever-bearing plants!!). The greens are coming in luciously and beans from the previous planting have even sprouted up between the rows to become friends with the garden mixes. Unfortunately, the devious rabbits have been hard at work in regards to chomping down our spinach. Our number of troops have dwindled and now stand at two solitary spinach soldiers...the shame. This provides us with wonderful hindsight: plant the spinach in ways that you can put row covers on and then put them on, even if you think you don't have to.
Also, as a last note, before you start making any type of cooked apple preserve, make sure to have either (a) an apple peeler (like the machine, not like a vegetable peeler, as Emery once naively thought) OR (b) a mill (which is quite fun). At this point in time, we are equipped with neither. Our mission to find one of these options continues as our apples sit untouched, but not unsmelled, on our kitchen counter.
Greenly and Sincerely,
Emery and Will (the rest of The Garden Crew are out gallivanting on fall break, bums)
In other news, the green peppers are looking quite fabulous. We have to make sure that we do not continue robbing the cradle. A week of untouched growth will provide us with juicy, succulent, healthy, vegetarianly meaty, and bountiful peppers. The Alpine strawberries are blooming again (Yay, god, for ever-bearing plants!!). The greens are coming in luciously and beans from the previous planting have even sprouted up between the rows to become friends with the garden mixes. Unfortunately, the devious rabbits have been hard at work in regards to chomping down our spinach. Our number of troops have dwindled and now stand at two solitary spinach soldiers...the shame. This provides us with wonderful hindsight: plant the spinach in ways that you can put row covers on and then put them on, even if you think you don't have to.
Also, as a last note, before you start making any type of cooked apple preserve, make sure to have either (a) an apple peeler (like the machine, not like a vegetable peeler, as Emery once naively thought) OR (b) a mill (which is quite fun). At this point in time, we are equipped with neither. Our mission to find one of these options continues as our apples sit untouched, but not unsmelled, on our kitchen counter.
Greenly and Sincerely,
Emery and Will (the rest of The Garden Crew are out gallivanting on fall break, bums)
RSS Feed