It's been a couple of weeks since I've really been able to get out in the garden. Last weekend we had the pleasure of having the grand kids over ( 6 yrs and 4 yrs) , so all my free time went into to them. We spent the day making butterfly magnets for Mommy for Mother's Day and a bouquet of flowers made out of egg cartons, and of course the Grand daughter had to 'steal' one of my stones for her garden. I didn't mind a bit and was thrilled to share with her. Unfortunately I didn't think to get any pictures but we had a great time. 
We managed to get some rain this past week, so I knew I was going to need to put more DE in the garden. I planned on making time on Mother's Day to give the garden some much needed attention. Right away I started seeing troublemakers .
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| See Mr. Stink Bug? |
I have been wanting to play around with some home remedy pest control and this was the perfect opportunity. I found this website ( http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/natural-pest-control-remedies.html ) and decided to try out the apple cider and vinegar recipe, as that is all I had on hand at the time. I'll being making a trip to the store tomorrow for some more home remedies
I used 1/2 a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar to half a liter of water. I'm not sure if this is going to help a lot but at least I feel better 'thinking' I'm doing some good.
I took this time to really inspect the plants, checking under the leaves and really taking a good look at the stems and stalks.
As I did this I made sure to use spray the under side of the leaves with the apple cider solution. I felt very confident that I had used the spray to the best I could, so now we'll see what happens
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| Early Girl Tomato's |
In the mean time, I decided that one of my tomato cages were leaning to close to another, so I zip tied it to the trellis, hoping that it will help anchor it away from the other tomatoes.
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| Mr. Stink bug on the cucumber plant |
While I'm waiting on it to get late enough for that I'll be checking out different websites on good and bad bugs.
Here's one of my favorite websites:
https://www.fix.com/blog/common-garden-pests-and-how-to-get-rid-of-them/
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| The Pepper on the left is the Chocolate, right is an Orange and in the middle is a Jalapeno Pepper |
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| 3 Hard boiled eggshells that I crushed and then sprinkled in' the garden. |
Since I boiled eggs for Potato Salad (part of tonight's dinner) I thought I'd give it a try.
My peppers occasionally drop flowers or leaves so I sprinkled around the base of all 3 pepper plants and decided to put some around the green beans as well.
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| Crushed eggshells on the base' of the green beans |
So far so good with the Tomato's.They look beautiful to me. I can't wait for those Grape tomato's to ripen.
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| The one on the left is an Early Girl Tomato. Top right is a Grape (Tami G) and bottom right is Rutgers Select |
I also found some time to give my mini roses some much needed attention. I re potted them a few weeks ago and gave them some fresh dirt, but a lot of blooms have died off. I spent a little time pruning off the dead blooms. They look so much better!
I'm getting ready to break up my cactus. When I first received it, there was just the one part in the middle. It's since sprouted 3 arms. Since the last rains the arm on the right has 3 raised bumps. I'm not sure if it's getting ready to bloom again or if it's going to sprout more arms. The blooms are beautiful and only happen at night.
This is the last of the Lettuce in the Aero Garden!
Tonight we'll clean it up and see what to next with it!
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