I’ll have to get up early tomorrow to pick the rest; there are at least 15 more where those came from!

I should add, these were from Jessi’s half of the garden

They’re Back!

This is the adult Vine Borer Moth. She lays her eggs at the base of your summer and winter squash plants, and when the eggs hatch the disgusting maggot-like worms tunnel into the hollow stems, eventually killing the plant.

We’ve been getting an average of two inches of rain per week. While all of the herbs are growing well, the catnip has really surprised me. It is currently the tallest plant in our garden – even taller than the sunflowers (though they’ll catch up soon enough!)

Unfortunately, we didn’t move the old bean and cucumber trellises with us, and I didn’t have the scrap wood (or the ambition) this year to build something new.

Menard’s sells 10′ PVC Pipes for 97¢. Five of those, plus a bit of hemp twine, makes a really nice bean teepee. I dug each pole 1 foot into the ground to make sure the winds wouldn’t take them down this summer.

We ordered a Nichols plum tree and Goldrush and Williams Pride apple trees from One Green World.  They came in last week, but I forgot to call to get the lines marked beforehand so we had to wait to plant them.  They sat in the crawlspace and the plum tree decided to flower.  All are semidwarf and disease resistant varieties.  Goldrush ripens late and William’s Pride early.  We planted them by our crabapple trees in the front yard – hopefully they’ll get enough sun!

The chives have been flowering for a week. Welcome, bees!

The garden looks completely different, and green. I’ll have to post a few photos this weekend … after we do a bit of weeding!