Karl's Garden Blog

The garden’s slowly but surely producing dribs and drabs of produce. I’ve got dozens of Roma tomatoes ripening on the vine, a four or five Black Krims (no Mr. Stripeys), several handfuls of Sweet 100’s, and Emily and I ate a wonderful cucumber that the Bush Champion produced. Can’t wait for it to grow more…

First cucumber! It was delicious!

I sliced it and mixed it with about a half-cup of sour cream, a few dribs of white balsamic vinegar, and salt and pepper. It was delicious. I was going to throw a handful of super-sweet 100’s in with it, but … I ate them.

On the other hand, the Cayenne plant that produced those wonderful peppers a few months ago is no more. I came out the front door a few mornings ago to find out that two caterpillars had completely denuded it overnight.

That's a cayenne he's munching on.

Gluttons.

Whoever told me that putting Cayenne pepper on a plant’s leaves would keep the caterpillars off of it? Doesn’t look like that’s true…