I bet you thought this post would be about how we’re giving produce to our friends and neighbour? Right? Well, to be fair, I did bring Mom a bowl of spinach this afternoon (decent recompense for years and years and years of enjoying the bounty of her enormous garden, wouldn’t you say?).
But no, I’m not talking about our largesse unless you are possessed of six legs. Yes, the buggies have found our garden in droves. In the (somewhat skewed) words of W.P. Kinsella: if you plant it, they will come. A bug box of dreams, as it were. I took some pictures of the damage and if you, dear reader, are knowledgeable about such things and you enjoy a game of “name that bug,” perhaps you can tell me whom we’ve been hosting for dinner?
Bitten Beans
Snacked-on Spinach
Picked-at Peas
At this point in time, I’m mostly interested in eating around bug holes and leaving things as they are. Mike is more interested in pouring the molds for our entrance walkway (won’t that be cool?!?). However, I’m sure we’ll soon look to some (non-poisonous, toxic, nasty, or otherwise frightening) methods of dissuading these pernicious pests. After all, even though we’re sharing with them, there is no guarantee they’ll share with us. Stay tuned…
Even the Zucchini has been a snack, but I couldn't think of any "eating" word that started with Z, so I compared it to my hand instead. Humungous.
Ripcord will solve all of your problems :o)
Of course you probably won’t want to eat your stuff then. I spend a lot of time squishing and shooing… and eating around the critters. We have a huge infestation of squash beetles now….
I have been looking around… I think you may have a blight in your bean plants…. so much wet weather, it isn’t surprising.
I wondered. There are certainly holes in some stuff, but I didn’t take pics of that. Ick.