Square Foot Gardening Update # 16 July 24

Yesterday I had quite a scare in the garden.  I found tomato horn worms on my tomato plants.  Still makes me shiver to even think about them!  I won't even gross you out with another picture.  Read the post here.

We are combating them in the following ways--

• My dear, brave, husband is picking them off at my command (love you honey!)
•  Horn worms don't like cornmeal--it makes their stomach explode.  Cornmeal is all over the plants.
• I sprayed the dish soap solution on all my plants too.  I heard adding vegetable oil to the solution helps too.

We will see what happens.  My husband took a couple off this evening and said that he thought the cornmeal was doing it's job.  (Yay! Clap!)

In other news, we have actually enjoyed lots of tomatoes!  We also finished up the green bean plants.

After reading about harvesting pumpkins I decided three pumpkins that were taking over the back yard were ready to be picked.

I'm actually thinking of planting more pumpkins in an area where they won't be such a nuisance. 

I'm doing a lot of cleaning up the yard right now and just trying to survive the heat.  It is very hard to stay outside for long.

I'm in the process of re-planting green beans too.  I also plan to plant lettuce and spinach in mid-August and hope for the best! 

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