the things we learned

We learn from our mistakes right? Here are a few of our lessons from this growing season. 

 Our thumbs our getting greener every day.

We learned that we despise the white butterfly. It lays tiny eggs on our plants. Then the eggs turn into caterpillars and eat our veggies.

Luckily they were mostly into the Nasturtiums. I spent a lot of time picking the little green caterpillars off. It was actually strangely therapeutic. We equally dislike the aphids and white fly!

We learned that the tomatoes should probably be planted behind the Zucchini.

We learned our Hyacinth needs more soil to florish. And probably more light. We planted them in the middle of our circle of peas. The idea was that when the peas died off we would pull them down and have a beautiful purple hyacinth vine to look at. No such luck.

We learned that peppers,

eggplants

and watermelon need to be started much sooner.

 There is always something to learn in the garden.

the news from the garden 3

We have peas! We have been enjoying meals this week with ingredients all from our garden. Fun times. First peas on Dec 16th.

The garlic is harvested as of the 18th of Dec. We had a friends over the day before who is a garlic expert. Or so we think. She told us to watch our garlic because we were supposed to get some rain and the moisture could cause it to go to seed. Sure enough the next day the rain came and then the look of plants going to seed. We pulled it all and are drying on a table in the shed.

And other news
More fruit on the tomato plants. None ripe yet.
Flowers on the squash and pumpkin. I have been hand pollinating them.
Mustard greens going to seed.
Harvested white onions today. Laid them on the ground to dry. Pretty small.
Lettuce still crazy!
Peppers showing first signs of fruit.
Dill seems to be bouncing back after extreme aphid/white fly attack.
Aphids and white fly seem to have calmed down in the garden.
Some mildew starting on cucurbits. I am going to try a milk/water spray on them tonight.