sakon76 | Definitely Fall

I finally nailed the sucker who's been munching indiscriminately on my Persimmon tomatoes. All three suckers, I should say, since they proved to be three big fat tomato hornworms. Who are now living in the park on the other side of the double 6' cinderblock wall. If I had chickens I'd've thrown them to the chickens to eat; as it was, neither of the cats were all that interested in them. (Sushi used to love eating grubs so I figured it was worth a try.) But I do have a huge basketfull of tomatoes and jalepenos and beans to wash and sort for my weekly harvest. It's getting dark early enough that I'm down to gardening on weekends. :(

I did finally start planting things in previously unplanted bed #3. Currently there are four chard plants, three borage, two lawn chamomile, and seventeen leeks in there. I'm considering starting turnips and beets and then transplanting them, as something keeps eating anything I start from seed in the ground. I also want to start more leeks, and bok choi, and the Egyptian walking onions I finally received bulbs for. I also pulled out three of my tomato plants that weren't going to give me anything more for the season. It's been windy enough recently that some of my taller stand of corn has been blown over, so I'm now using those freed-up tomato stakes to prop up corn....

EDIT: walking onions started; also did 24 starts each of beets and turnips; am rooting 8 more of my baby spider plants; have mulched entirety of bed #3 under 2" straw, which seems to work wonders as far as the soaker hose being buried and thus not watering the paths as well as the bed. Also, washed car.