After you suffer a loss in the garden, you just gotta keep on. Yesterday morning, I lost my winter squash plant that was the centerpiece of the Three Sisters garden. It is now continuing on in the compost pile, which I suppose is worth something. I believe the cause was cut worms. I'll be giving everything a good spray of Bt tonight. Bt, short for Bacillus Thuringiensis, is a bacteria that gets into the system of caterpillars and other worms and does them in. You can read about it here.
Luckily, my friends Sarah and Jim have a roque winter squash plant that came up in their compost pile from last year's plant. I'm gonna give that one a go!
Also, I figured I'd mark the loss of one plant with the new beginning of another. I decided the corn was tall enough to mound soil around the base of the stalks and plant cornfield bean seeds in the mound. Looking forward to having my Three Sisters take shape.
I also planted some onion seeds that will be ready to transplant in about 8 weeks and will be later onions for me. Not sure how well the timing is going to work out, but might as well give it a shot. And if they don't have time to fully mature, I have learned that onions can be harvested at any stage in development, so the effort should not be in vain.
After my sad morning in the garden, I went on to meet a friend at the Saxapahaw General Store for lunch and ran into Chris Carter, a man of much knowledge, who was sitting at a table with a butterfly on a basket. There will be more on that later...
Now to begin my day in the garden - hopefully clearing out a flower bed of weeds and planting some lantana.
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