September's Garden
Here it is nearing the end of the season back in New York
and here in Texas, I'm growing a new crop.
The first bunch of cucumbers went belly up.
They got hit hard with melon aphids and combined with the heat, I got maybe 5 fruits out of all.
I learned.
I ripped out the old nearly dead plants and began again.
I put foil under the cucumbers. This helped.
I still have a few pests but I'm working on it.
The tomatoes I almost lost.
The plants survived but only through constant picking off of hornworms.
Eventually we gave up and sprayed with Sevin. I hated to do that.
No more hornworms!
I found a few cocooned caterpillars of some kind and squashed them.
I cut off lots of the dead branches on the tomatoes, re-fed and watered and they are perking up.