Picture of the tomato and zucchini

Our ripening tomato.

Heeeeere's the zucchini.

I took the above pictures this morning. Mary pulled weeds while I watered the plants.

We visited some of the other gardens to see how they planted things. I think we decided that we were going to remove one of the black plastic strips and create a mound in the ground. Then we are going to replace the black plastic and plant something there, probably more corn to replace the plants that don't look too good. I'm not sure but even those may come back. The corn stalk that one of us accidentally broke off, appears to be sending out another shoot, or maybe it just a blade of grass, we can't tell the difference. We'll let the corn go for a couple of weeks to see if it recovers before we pull it up. We decided to this on Tueday, but we can't because we have a lunch date with Nick, Mary and our other friends. We'll have to do it another day.

Mary is still feeling badly about the soap spray. It really isn't that terrible. I think most, if not all, of the plants will recover with no problems. She's calling herself Dr. Kevorkian. Perhaps she'll feel better when the worst of them start to come back. I don't think the few tomato that were sprayed are lost, and the squashes, peppers, etc only have a couple of burnt leaves on them. There is no root damage, so I truly believe that all is well.

We continue to have problems finding Sevin at a reasonable price. Most places have the granules instead of the powder. I sent an email to Bayer to see how to use the granules and if they would be just as effective. We really don't want an insecticide that we have to mix and spray. Mary did find some powdered Sevin at Walmart but they wanted as much for 3lbs as Watson's did for 5lbs. She did try at Watson's but they were sold out. Our problem has been the Colorado Potato Beetle and from what I can find out on the Internet they are prevalent in May. Well, here we are at the end of June, perhaps they are about over with and we won't need any more insecticide.

I also read that eggplants need calcium, so I'm going to see if I can get some lime to put around our plants and that should help them.

I think both Mary and I have a new appreciation of what farmers go through. You think you put a plant in the ground and just wait for it to produce a vegetable. You don't think you have to feed it multivitamins and shoo bugs weird bugs from Colorado away and all that. I hope we don't have a $64.00 Tomato. I hope we at least have two $32.00 ones.