Home and Finally Posting
Been home about 10 days. Spent a couple days getting readjusted to the (much) lower altitude and (MUCH) higher temps and humidity. Then I had a bunch of catch up to do in the garden. Surprisingly, I only lost a few plants, and they were the ones I half expected to expire, anyway. Then there were the ones the dog ate, but that happens…
Thoroughly enjoyed my trip. Colorado Springs is an amazingly beautiful place, and there is so much to see in the area. We went up Pike’s Peak, visited the Garden of the Gods, saw the Air Force Academy, and went to Seven Falls. Saw lots of other stuff, too. Spent a lot of time with my wonderful, adorable grandsons, which was the best part of the whole deal, apart from watching Jen graduate.
I took more than 200 pictures, which I will be posting in a gallery eventually. I took one of them and made the wallpaper below:
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Now, back to the garden. Got lots of baby tomatoes, the cukes are starting to fruit, and some of the peppers have blossoms. The plants are starting to grow up my arbor, as planned. The bush beans in the garden are being eaten by something, even with the cage, and they don’t look so good. It’s not snails, slugs, or any caterpillar I can find, and it just the leaves that are being eaten…completely, I might add. Not in bites or chunks, but the whole leaves(not the stems) just vanish…very strange.
The cantaloupe, watermelon, and zucchini are growing and blossoming, too. All in all, it’s going quite well. No time to relax, though, as it’s almost time to start the seeds for the fall garden…
Hubby got bored while I was gone and decided to build a really cool picnic table. It’s done but for the sanding and staining; I’ll post a pic when I remember to take one before it gets too dark.
Gotta go, got stuff to do…
Later…
‘Bout time you got back. I’ve missed you! Happy to hear your garden survived while you were gone.
I had a problem with my young bean leaves being eaten to bits by earwigs. Now that they have grown larger, they aren’t bothered by them any more. It’s hard to get them past the chewed up stage, though.
The weird thing is the leaves just completely disappear all at once; it’s not like something is gradually chewing on them until they eat it all. They just vanish. Been out there at night looking for snails/slugs, haven’t seen any grasshoppers or beetles, can’t find any caterpillars…it’s just weird! They look pretty sad; got pole beans growing on my arbor, so may just pull them and try again.