Saturday Morning - Of Love and Stinkbugs
Love and Gardening, Perfect Together!
Listening to “Sleepy Hollow” on WXPN this morning. With its mix of jazz, classical, folk and world music, it’s the perfect way to sip coffee and ease into a busy weekend. So many songs about love—what a power of life. The millions and millions of ways humans sing about it fascinates me. Here’s to love.
Hopefully you gardeners out there are outside gettin’ dirty by this time. I got things rollin’ last weekend, planting onion plants, lettuces, turnips, radishes, sugar snap peas, and spinach. Of course then it snowed. Great. But I prepared ahead and had the beds cozied up under some polyesther row cover. I also had some overwintered veggies survive under row cover, straw and leaves. So carrots, kale, arugula, baby bibb (the nicest surprise because it’s more fragile) and spinach are awake and kickin’. And the garlic, which always gets planted in the fall, is looking fine. Can almost taste those juicy cloves. Yummmm. I picked some of the stuff for a dinner salad last night. Magic. If any of you need some help organic gardening without chemicals, I still have more classes coming up in the area this springand early summer. Visit www.CthreeA.org.
Stinkbug Coffee?! So Greg’s face to face with the coffeemaker this morning ready for caffeine fixin’ and what to his wondrous eyes did appear but a stinkbug, right on the filter holder. Ewwww! After having to get rid of 20 or 30 a day for weeks this winter, seems they have finally mostly made their way out of the crevices of our walls and back outside. And the worst part is, there are a few beneficial bugs (meaning they eat the bad bugs in your garden so you don’t have to use chemicals to kill ‘em) that look almost exactly like them. Spiny soldier bugs and assassin bugs. So who knows What I’ve been throwing down the toilet. Oh well. Just heard on U Bet Your Garden this morning that they’re working on a beneficial bug that will destroy stinkbug eggs. Waiting time - TWO YEAR??? If we can wait that long.
