I will be using my other wordpress blog Garden Swan which is also listed in my Blogroll for my “Picture of the Week” using the new Monotone theme. It works pretty neat the way it adjusts colors so I figured might as well put that blog to good use. How it works is you add one picture per post and there are arrows to move forward to the next photo which is added when you make another post (one picture per post). I need to work with it more, but for now I feel organized and that is Key for me….. I need to “at least feel” organized!
My newest garden purchases this week –
I needed a lightweight pitchfork tool for turning our newest compost area (made from the old trampoline left down south) and I am pretty sure I will find other uses for this new tool! The boots are a Must … flip flops do allow for even tanning but they are just not practical and the other shoes just get ruined. I did get some of those garden clogs but we have some serious brush and other vegetation growing wild … and lots of ticks! The magnifying glass is probably causing a big question mark in your mind …. it’s for the Bugs! I will be out watching the activity in the gardens and watching for those beneficial bugs who rid the garden of the damaging bugs. The only problem I have is … Which bug is which?? My logic always ran along the lines that a “Bug is a Bug” – not SO, in the world of Gardening! I searched around on the internet and found this great link on Farmer Fred’s website and it took all the guesswork out of the bug mystery for me. Actually, last year I did have a couple run ins with the tomato hornworm …
They can be very damaging and notice the droppings on the deck – hard to see in the soil, but this tomato plant was in a container on my deck.
At first I had no clue what this was – now I know … the beneficial wasps laid eggs on this hornworm who will eat the worm causing its death. Best to leave this alone as the new wasps will continue the good work.
I picked this for my “Picture of the Week”