Yesterday the 5th grade harvested 1/2 a bushel of winter squash (mini pumpkins), a peck of tomatoes, a peck of hot peppers, as well as sunflower, and dill seed. We cleaned out three of the 5 raised beds and discarded all of the harlequin bug infested cabbage family plants, we also weeded all the beds. There is a lot of basil to be harvested and more hot peppers that need to turn red.
We saw many other insects, mainly beneficials and saw many worms - a good sign. We will start to dismantle some of the beds for the move this week. We will also do more hand picking of the pests.
The canoe garden has bokchoy and a regular head cabbage that is getting munched on by cabbage worms. I have picked no less than 15 of these pests off of these cabbages. we have also seen cucumber beetles and harlequin bugs on the cabbage - there are only 11 plants! Ugh! i wonder how much a floating row cover would help?
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