My goodness it's been a long time since I put up a post. It feels like all I do any more is wake up, go to work, come home, make dinner, watch TV with the kids for a hour (cause I don't have energy for anything else), grade papers, plan my lesson for the next day, and then go back to bed for 6 hours of sleep before I have to start all over again!
However, we did have a wonderful spring break and I took lots of fun pictures that I'm excited to post. Also, I have found time on Saturdays to squeeze in some gardening. The temperatures here are already in the 90's during the day so we're a good month into our growing season. I have tomatos (hanging and in the ground), peppers, rosemary, green onions, onion chives, garlic chives, beans, yellow squash, zucchini, lettuce, basil, thyme, oregano, cilantro, italian parsely, blackberries, and a potato that Tyler planted last halloween (it just decided to start growing in Feb).
Things are going good with the garden this year as far as bugs are concerned (for a change). I got Celebrity tomatoes to help with disease resistance and make sure to spray for bugs every week. I also put toilet paper tubes around the stems of the squash to keep the grubs out. Oh yeah! I also sifted through all of my soil by hand to get all of the scarab beetle grubs out before I planted anything. It was SO gross. I put them all in a pint size mason jar and showed it to the kids. I told them that it was dinner. Heh heh. They didn't belive me - smarty pantses.
My grubs were this big.
If I had found a grub like this I would have died!However, now I have garden problems that I didn't expect: sunscald and herbicide overspray. I guess it got too hot too fast and the sun burned a bunch of the tomato leaves. At least I think that's what happened. Also, Jared sprayed for weeds in the grass and I think some of the poison got on some of the tomatoes. Now the new leaves are all wrinkly and deformed. Really weird looking. He said he was sorry. P.S. watch out for manure that comes from cows that were fed grass that was sprayed with herbicide to kill weeds. They cows eat the poisoned grass, they poop it out, you buy the poop and then when you put it in your garden it kills your plants. Just an FYI.
Jared is telling me that I have to stop so that I can clean the shower so that he can caulk it. So I guess the fun spring break pictures will have to wait until later.
2 comments:
Hello to you all!
I'm super amazed at your life. Good thing you are healthy and have plenty of stamina. The garden sounds awesome, the grubs--gross! We have birds going over our lawn to get as many of them as they can, but still some survive and kill chunks of grass.
Your tomatoes should survive your industrious care. Just keep them well watered. You probably don't have to worry about them getting too wet in that part of the country.
There's NOTHING like veggies from your own garden!
YEA, CELEBRITY TOMATOES!
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