Well last night was a perfect evening, we are finally getting some food from the garden. We harvested a large amount of strawberries and then we chopped up some Rhubarb...Heather made a fantastic pie last night. I am generally not a fan of anything sweet but it was a real taste of fresh and clean produce. Can't go wrong with that. I managed to get two cord of wood split yesterday so it was nice to sit down to a meal out in the gazebo by the pond. At this time of year we really only eat outside. We take full advantage of what we can get with the season. It is refreshing as well. Today it is such a wonderful day we must take a quick drive to the beach. As I have mentioned before we are fortunate with where we live that we are so close to the ocean. It takes less than 15 minutes to get there, why wouldn't you just want to go for a dip. Most people would be surprised to think of nice sandy beaches here in New Brunswick,Canada however we have what is considered to be the warmest beaches north of the Carolina's in the USA. With such large tidal movements over the hot sand it heats the water so rapidly. It is sometimes hard to believe that some people have never got the chance to see the oceans. I feel the water provides so much strength...rawness(if that even is a word).
I hope you all feel a day of joy
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Return of the sunshine
Greetings of Love..
I have been away camping and hiking just a good way to kick off the summer. Sometimes it is really hard to get the urge to go to the computer when you only get such limited time out of the year with nice weather. Getting back at the work to be done has been rewarding as well. Everything has finally been planted in the garden. Seems quite late being July and all but with the rain and cold weather we had this is the best we could do. Now my big job is to get cracking with wood splitting.
We have had a new introduction to our garden this year. It has been quite detrimental. It is the striped cucumber beetle.
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What a bug. Not only do they destroy squash, pumpkin, cucumbers,zucchini but there larvae will eat the roots of corn...I will not use anything against these bugs to kill them. I know there is "organic" pesticides that can be used. But seriously if it kills bugs how organic can it really be. Maybe I am just skeptical. What I read was to plant radishes in the same location as the plants it eats. Radishes grow fast and hopefully the SCB will destroy them before the squash and so forth. I have also been diligent in constantly removing them from the plants, Even obsessing over them maybe.I can get rid of there frustration with some wood chopping....Well I don't know what else to do, any good clean advice would be helpful...
Hoping you all a wonderful day
I have been away camping and hiking just a good way to kick off the summer. Sometimes it is really hard to get the urge to go to the computer when you only get such limited time out of the year with nice weather. Getting back at the work to be done has been rewarding as well. Everything has finally been planted in the garden. Seems quite late being July and all but with the rain and cold weather we had this is the best we could do. Now my big job is to get cracking with wood splitting.
We have had a new introduction to our garden this year. It has been quite detrimental. It is the striped cucumber beetle.
SCB
Hoping you all a wonderful day
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