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| So here I am sleepily checking my garden this morning, leaning in and picking ripe tomatoes when my eyes focus on this odd looking tomato......arghhhhh!!!!! It was no tomato....it's alive! A tomato hornworm and a huge one at that. There were actually three. OMG....I have the hornworm creepies really bad. I feel like things are crawling on me. Do you have these on your tomatoes and if so, how do you get rid of them? I am no longer sleepy. I don't like my garden anymore. Now you know why I like winter so much. I want my mommy. |
I went to another new market and bought the first Chambersburg peaches. I hope peaches don't have peach hornworms.
Freshly picked raspberries.
A giant head of cabbage.
And pickle cucumbers.
I forgot to take a pic of this white corn before I cooked it. It sure was good though.
So, I peeled a bunch of garlic.
And cut a bunch of dill.
And made pickles.
Now I will have to wait a few days to see if I was able to duplicate the ones I bought at the country market.
They look good.
It was cool last night so I built a fire. Roasted hornworms. That has a good ring to it.
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From time to time we get those nasty horn worms. I refuse to use my hands to take them off the plants. I use scissors and pull them off the plant and then chop them up. That is how I get rid of mine.
Your pickles look really good, I pickled up several cucumbers myself last week making dill and bread and butter for canning.
The organic way would just to hand pick them off but if you are not gardening oraginc then what My Grandma said she used 5% sevins dust. get it at almost any home store. apply in AM when dew is still on the plant. Or mist the plant there are directions on the bottle.
Good luck
The big catepillars, which I have to say I think are beautiful :-) is just to pick and feed the fish in Your ponds. I have trouble with a catepillar on my clematis, I just pick them and give them to my goldfish and kois in my water barrels, they just loves to eat them :-)
I love to have pickled cucumbers together with liver pate on a sandwich :-) I think that is the only thing besides beetroot that I like pickled.
Have a great day!
Christer.
I'd love to hear how your pickles turn out.
blessings
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I hope you've mastered your pickles! What else is in the brine?
I make a pretty good pickle, heres' the link on my blog for you to check out. Have a great weekend!
http://oceanbreezesandcountrysneezes.blogspot.com/2012/06/best-dill-pickles-ever.html
Those pickles look so good! We are getting our local (York County) peaches here- they are great.
But I do hear you about loving winter! We are enduring very humid weather here and don't particularly feel 'equipped' to handle it. Takes so much energy from you and it's like walking through liquid! And this is Nova Scotia....not the deep south!
We wait for Ontario peaches here....since the ones from here are not the best. My favourite summertime fruit!
those pickles look delicious! I am sure you will be pleased.
They can reach a length of over an inch..and are hidious!
Your horned thing sounds as bad.
I wonder what we look like to them..not to mention our size!
Yep..not a bug person..
Not blaming you for wanting your Mommy! LOL Good one, Joyce!!!