Hello gardeners!
This week is hot, humid and heavy but this means that the garden is FLOURISHING. As I'm inside researching and avoiding the hottest part of the day, the garden babies are soaking up sunlight, photosynthesizing and growing their lovely blossoms.
Some brief updates about this week (pictureless because my camera is sans-cord!):
- Annie is in vacationland and will have so much to see when she gets back for next week. Happy vacationing, Annie, the garden misses you!
- Prolonged sunlight means SO MANY WEEDS. Hoeing every morning has become a guessing game of which-plot-has-become-overrun-with-rampant-vegetation-overnight; no fear, the babes are well tended to (and maybe my sweat is actually a pest control).
- So much better than weeds: there are so many tomatos! And zucchinis! And cuke blossoms! And bean plants are grabbing onto trellises! Corn is ABOVE THE HIP! Our babes are definitely in adolescent stage, quickly shooting for adulthood.
squash plants have kicked it at the hands of a ferocious batch of Acalymma vittatum within the last week. They may look small, bright and cheery but the wilted remains of a few plants disagree after invasions of entire packs of these guys. We're looking into organic treatments for the sake of our remaining, still burgeoning squash and cucumber plants.- Next week is forecasted to be full of thunderstorms. Knowing Western Mass weather, this may or may not be actually true but, if so, that just means another growth spurt after the downpours.
- A second round of seed ordering should be happening ASAP. On the wishlist: potatoes, kale, spinach, swiss chard, among other exciting, yummy things!
Those are about the goings-ons in the garden for now. In this Western MA summer, stay cool, stay hydrated and stay growing!
Peace, love, and veggies,
Annie and Brittany
MHC Student Garden Interns
3 comments:
CORN ABOVE THE HIP?!?!?!!! I can't believe I'm missing this :( Glad to be a few hours north, though...that forecast looks awful!
Take care B,
Annie
Lovely ladies!! I am so pleased to read this blog and hear about all your gardening adventures. You must be learning so much. Can't wait to hear about it all over a delicious FJS meal in the fall. Can you post some photos of the garden? I would love to see the layout this year and check out those babies' progress.
As for squash beetles-- we had that problem too. Soap is supposed to be a good solution. But they're pretty resilient. Good luck!
I'm just itching to see the garden come September. You two are amazing!
xoxo
Ariel
what you need is a team of 13 year old boys to help you go out on a "search and destroy" mission to squash all those potato beetles. the best are the large red larvae because they leave an orange goop on the rocks...that's what we do here at overlook farm!
--Leila
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