I had today off, so I tackled the beast. I'm battling squash beetles on my zucchini/squash (they're not too invasive yet, but the base of one zucchini plant is looking gnarly). I just used Safe-brand insect killer (sulphur and soap organic combination). My tomatoes are insane--last year, they flopped, so I think I crowded them this year, not thinking they would go anywhere. Wrong. And when I thinned my okra seedlings, the strongest ones just happened to be thisclose to the tomato plants. They're co-mingling fine for now, but my gosh they're close. Things like that offend my obsessive-compulsive sensibilities.
Photo time. First up are photos of our compost pile (exciting!). It's turned into quite a jungle back there, which is kind of fun to watch. Aside from the weeds, though, there is a huge patch of volunteer tomatoes (the entirety of the front of the picture).
Now to the garden proper--lots of green baby veggies popping out, and herbs are overflowing.
Excellent reads of the summer:
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore
"Interpreter of Maladies," by Jhumpa Lahiri
"Goosberries," by Anton Chekhov
and I'm about to start Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
