Category Archives: Garden & Yard

Bit of Snow 2-19-2025

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I realize this isn’t much snow,
but it is a snow.
I wanted to show we got a bit of it.

Wishing you all a warm rest of the week.

 

 

Evil Demon Squash Vine Borer 2024

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Taking pictures in the garden is one of the extra joys of gardening. It also helps me to see the health of the plants/vines.
As I was taking photos of my squash I saw an adult Squash Vine Borer. I was not happy about it. Fortunately, I had on my handy-dandy plastic gloves and was able to grab the demon bug and dispatch of her in short measure. This, I might add, is quite a feat, since these particular pests are fast. Thankfully she hadn’t laid an egg.
In my opinion, the SVB is one of the most vicious pests in the garden because it’s almost impossible to do anything about them.

And so the battle begins… :/

In 2015, I wrote about a SVB grub that showed up in a squash stem I had harvested.
Here’s a link to that post ‘Evil Demon Squash Vine Borer Grub’

 

 

Here’s wishing you a season free of garden pests.

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Potato Harvest 2024 – ball squash – peppers – tomatoes

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We harvested our potatoes. There’s about 20 pounds of them, that’s a pretty good considering we planted about 4 pounds of seed potatoes.

The rest of Our garden is starting to put on some delicious fruit.
I can hardly wait to harvest them too.

I hope you all have a successful season
with whatever you are working on.
Happy Gardening!