Good and Bad

Checked out my garden this morning after being gone for the past several days. Caterpillars had completely eaten one broccoli plant, leaving nothing but a stalk. One of my zucchini plants that hadn’t been looking good keeled over for one last time as well. I pulled two adult squash bugs off of another of the zucchini plants. The tomato plants still have some spider mites on them, but certainly fewer. I jet sprayed the remaining foliage again this morning to try to knock off some of the remaining bugs.

On the positive side, the eggplant plants and their growing eggplants look good, as do the peppers. One of the green peppers is starting to turn red. I did discover the one zucchini I had growing had gotten quite big over the past couple days, so I cut that off this morning. I think I’ll cut off a couple green peppers and add both veggies to a lasagna later this week. Too bad I don’t have enough tomatoes to do a homemade sauce.