Sunday, May 26, 2013

New Vegetable Garden

Removed two citrus trees and cleared the space above the strawberries for a vegetable garden. Fenced it all in for critter control, and amended the sandy soil with lots of organic matter, sphagnum peat, compost and vermiculite. Used an electric tiller to work it all in and the resulting bed of fluffy soil is wonderful!

On 17-May planted the following:
• tomatillo (2)
• tomato (3) celebrity, HK, one other
• pepper (3) Anaheim (2), Jalapeno
• cucumber (2)
• French green beans (3 rows, 2 varieties)
• yellow onions
• carrot (4 varieties)

Photo to follow.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Bug on Grapes

Taken this year in the evening on Thursday, May 23.

This is the second individual of this type of insect I have seen on
grapes. Unable to identify with UC IPM.