re: 2023 Spring Garden Thread

Pumpkin and watermelon vines. I can barely walk around them.


Will this be the first pumpkin of the year?



I’ve been going out every couple of days with a pair of tweezers and plucking off all of the SVB eggs I can find. I know I will never get all of them, so I can’t tell if they are still coming around laying or if it eggs I missed before. But, there seems to be fewer and fewer each time. The vines are rooting at the nodes so that should help. All I can do is keep spraying and plucking off eggs as I find them and hope for the best. It worked last year.

We got some much needed rain yesterday. Right before the rain came it was a bit cooler so I got as much work done as I can doing some cleanup. I pulled the eggplant and remaining tomatoes, and started doing some weeding. Also went out this morning before church. Still got a lot of work to do. I really neglected the garden over the past couple of months cause we’ve been so busy. So I’m gonna keep working at it to whip it back into shape.