I am praying for some good bugs!
Some good news is, I brought in the best beet crop I have ever had tonight. Usually I grow them just for the greens (or these should be called purples.) but the beets themselves were small and fibrous. This year they are small but lovely. We have pretty hard soil, so I can be content with sweet little beets. I will blanch the greens and freeze them, and cook up the cute little beets. Yummy!
We had a Praying Mantis one year that the kids found with a broken wing. We put it out in the garden and he lived all summer in there going from tomato plant to tomato plant. Praying Mantis is my favorite insect!
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| Squash bug eggs. Find the under the leave most of the time. |
Some good news is, I brought in the best beet crop I have ever had tonight. Usually I grow them just for the greens (or these should be called purples.) but the beets themselves were small and fibrous. This year they are small but lovely. We have pretty hard soil, so I can be content with sweet little beets. I will blanch the greens and freeze them, and cook up the cute little beets. Yummy!
Well the server is not letting me upload any more pictures, so I will try to post the rest tomorrow.
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Happy Gardening!
What do you do with the greens? I eat borsch all year long, but I don't know anything about the greens.
ReplyDeleteI cook them up like spinach or pick the leaves (even the big leaves of this type were not bitter) while they are growing and eat them in salad. Last year I planted, a kind that I can't remember the name of. We didn't like those very much at all. This year I planted Bulls Blood. Best beets I've ever had! Sweet, the greens and the beets.
ReplyDeleteYou will be happy to know that chickens love beets too!
ReplyDeleteThere is an organic spray called spinosad that will get rid of the Colorado potato beetle. I hate those things. This is sommer btw.
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