Happy Belated Independence Day! I hope you had a safe and happy one.
We spent the weekend camping at a lake like we do just about every year, with a big group of friends. Despite rain on and off, we had an absolutely wonderful time.
However, when we got home, I did a garden walk through and found that in the two days we were gone, the squash bugs went wild! There are eggs everywhere. Ugh. I picked a lot off and squished them, and found several adults and they met their demise as well. I also found some nymphs, baby squash bugs, which means some eggs have hatched. Those are the first babies I have seen, so I think I had been doing a decent job of keeping up with them up until now. There are some on the pumpkin vines now too.
Tomorrow morning the kids and I are going to do some major garden work. We have got to get things down in the garden caught up. There are peas and peppers to pick, potatoes to dig, weeds to pull, and THE SQUASH BUGS MUST DIE!!!!!!
Oh, one more thing...my mother in law got me a dutch oven for my b-day! It is gorgeous, blue enamel cast iron and she also gave me a matching blue cast iron trivet with it. I fell in love with it. It is gorgeous and I am excited to use it! If I can force myself to...it really is THAT gorgeous! I just want to stare at it and take in its beauty. Silly, I know. :)
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That's great about the dutch over, what a wonderful gift!! I want one!
ReplyDeleteOmagosh I hate squash bugs. I just finished picking off about 12 Japanese Beetles from the raspberries and hollyhocks, and took them over to the chickens, thinking they'd be all excited. They seemed scared of them. I called the girls 'losers' and went on to plant a peach tree. I don't know what to do about all those squash bugs. I don't use chemicals do you? Do you think you could use some sort of pepper spray, something organic to kill them? Soapy water??
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the dutch oven and a belated happy birthday!
Nice to see ya around these parts again.
:-)
Yay for your dutch oven! I know how you feel, my mom gave me mine, and when I brought it home from MI, I left a pair of shoes behind, so I could fit it into my suitcase without going overweight. I wasn't about to be without it one more day after we'd finally been brought together. It was very much a "where have you been all my life" kind of moment.
ReplyDeleteBethany...I know exactly the kind of dutch oven love you are talking about. :)
ReplyDeleteJayme...you aren't belated...she was early. :) I turn 35 on Wednesday. Whoops...make that 29. ;) I am seriously considering using some Sevin dust. I did hit them with it early on in the season once to try to prevent them, but I haven't since because I hate to. But when I was down there this morning I found some mommas on the pepper plants too, and a ton more eggs on the squash after I just picked eggs off last night! I am afraid if I don't take some kind of drastic measure soon, they may kill everything. What is funny is that last year was the first year we planted pumpkins (no other squash last year)...I had never seen these bugs before and the nymphs are actually really really cute. I oooh'ed and awww'ed over them and let them do their thing. And then all the vines died! :) LOL How funny about the chickens!! Silly girls.
I am so excited about your dutch oven!!! How totally cool.
ReplyDeleteI hate squash bugs too. When you see them it seems to be too late to stop the damage.
I do the same thing. Stare at stuff. LOL I have no idea why.
ReplyDeleteI am having the same squash bug trouble. I really need to spend the entire day in the garden, but have to be gone all day.
I hate squash bugs too. I posted about a week ago about the stinking things. They have mostly bothered my pumpkin plants this year and ignored the zuchinni and pattypan squash for the most part..but jeesh! We pick them off and drop them in a bucket of hot soapy water....die squash bugs..die!!
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