After a few mishaps the garden is doing very well this season. We’ve planted tomatoes, squash, okra, eggplant, tomatillo, mint, dill, onions, watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, peppers, parsley and cilantro. We also have some volunteer lettuce and basil growing inside and outside of the boxes.
I love volunteer plants, they are so courageous.
This year has been a little different. I’ve had a problem with insects eating the plants. Those little pillbox bugs (I don’t know the proper name for them) love my eggplant and okra and I found a huge grasshopper eating the flowers off of my tomato plants. I’ve been using coffee grounds and diatomaceous earth on the soil and I’ve been spraying my tomatoes with coffee. This, thankfully, has been working and has saved my plants and my sanity.
This year I’ve focused on planting heirloom varieties and the eggplant is new for me as well. We are having a good start and the cantaloupe and watermelon are beginning to vine. So far so good, I love how it’s the same garden, but a new adventure every season.
