The pitiful state of my garden

It’s so pitiful, really, that I’m not going to show a picture of it.  A while ago, I went out and mercilessly hacked off a bunch of tomato branches and leaves that were doomed by powdery mildew.  My garden looks depressingly skeletal now, but at least it is still producing for now:
I had enough tomatoes [...]

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A new garden pest?

I think I’ve been battling a new garden pest the past few days… whiteflies.  Any time that I brush the tomato plants, and to a lesser extent the cucumbers and the peppers, a cloud of tiny white flying things arises.
I suppose they could be flying aphids, but when I described them to an entymologist friend, [...]

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First fruits!

The garden is getting along smashingly… and on Independence Day, I picked our first produce– the double cucumber highlighted in this entry. I rarely buy cucumbers in the grocery store because they just seem outrageously priced, even though I absolutely love them. So eating this cucumber was such a treat!

I probably could have [...]

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Death to aphids!

I have declared war on aphids!
They have been increasing in number since that first time I saw them… After I’d picked them off, I had a hope that they would get discouraged and go away. But alas, they have proliferated*. Two Mondays I went after them with tweezers (it was very satisfying [...]

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Big garden update

Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated about my garden. And so much has happened! So I’ll try and be kind of organized about it.
Last Sunday, I noticed that there were flowers on one of my pepper plants!

Unfortunately, the happiness was overshadowed somewhat by a discovery of bugs on the flower [...]

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