A big thank you goes out this week to John-Carlo one of our more adventurous supporters who spent the morning helping me and Nathan harvest the weekend pickup. It was a lot of fun from my perspective having someone to chat with while you work. I hope John-Carlo had fun too. At least he said he did. Nate did a great job of picking the beans, zucchini, and he even got to use the clippers to harvest the eggplants. I was impressed that he could do that. My favorite quote of the day from J-C was "This is a lot of work!" as we finished up harvesting and then started to wash everything. It made me smile. Thanks for noticing. It sure is...but I like doing it.
The pumpkins are ripening nicely. The corn has been attacked by European corn borer. This is the first year that we had them that bad. Things are terribly dry. The orange trees are shedding all their leaves to stay alive. The dryness that we have been experiencing has been good for the pumpkins and onions during ripening and in general we have seen less disease. I am starting to see hoards of stink bugs. More than past years. Those guys are a terror. I haven't found a way to control them yet. I am not sure where they come from either.
Something ate all our stone fruits. They were almost ripe and I only harvested a handful of nectarines, a few plums, and a couple of peaches. The nighttime menace got everything else.Very disappointing this year. I think it was a raccoon.
Cucumbers are looking bad. Kidney bean trial looked OK. I might do a bigger trial next year. I will wait for them to dry out before I harvest them. Just a few more weeks to go. I will post some pictures with our next post.
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