Sunday, September 02, 2007

Lots more veggies!!!




The garden has yielded yet more food this fine weekend. I have also found a particularly interesting pest attacking the now flourishing bean plants. There are these tiny grub-like hairy larvaes eating away at the leaves. They seem to lay eggs under leaves sometimes. But on one occassion, I saw one of them "give-birth" to a tiny larva. I wonder if this kind of pest can clone themselves? In any case, I killed hundreds of them, and the spiders probably took more.

I harvested the largest turnip in my garden. Dissapointingly, the turnip itself was tiny and woody. The greens are good to eat so I opted to keep it. In anycase, I harvested 11 lbs of pole beans, 2 lbs of tomatoes, and 1 lb of turnip greens.

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