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South Bed Planted
Jul. 9th, 2013 12:35 pmI'm pleased to announce that the south bed is finally planted with two varieties of squash. I worked a good amount of compost into the soil and planted inside 12 gopher-resistant cages.
I watered by hand, but need to get drip irrigation lines set up tomorrow morning.
The local farmers will probably grow Halloween pumpkins again, and when they do, clouds of flea beetles will wipe out my yellow squash. I'm ahead of them now, and should now get a crop before this happens.
With small scale-gardening you would never get these bug epidemics, but the farmers grow hundreds of acres of pumpkins, and get untold billions of bugs, which they control by spraying pesticide by helicopter. My little patch doesn't stand a chance.
I watered by hand, but need to get drip irrigation lines set up tomorrow morning.
The local farmers will probably grow Halloween pumpkins again, and when they do, clouds of flea beetles will wipe out my yellow squash. I'm ahead of them now, and should now get a crop before this happens.
With small scale-gardening you would never get these bug epidemics, but the farmers grow hundreds of acres of pumpkins, and get untold billions of bugs, which they control by spraying pesticide by helicopter. My little patch doesn't stand a chance.
