The first vegetables taste so good. Today we dug 2 potato plants to get some new potatoes for dinner. These were under those 2 plants. They are looking very good. We thank the Lord for the nice potatoes. We are so thankful that we did not have any potato bugs this year and the plants are just beautiful. The last 4 years was a real battle with the potato bugs and we did not do anything different this year. This year is the slug problem, they made lace out of the young cabbage when we put them out. We tried, neem oil, which is an organic product, we tried ground garlic with cayenne pepper, cedar chips around the plants, and the last thing was cooper. Maybe the cooper helped more than the other things but finally they are are making nice little heads. The copper wire is tied to copper stakes and strung down the row. The onions are growing and they will stay in the ground longer but this one is big enough for dinner.
Time to start harvesting garlic. My son dug the first double row and placed the garlic bulbs in the slide for drying. Garlic does very good on our hobby farm and last year we had too much so these will be sold to the lady up the street that has a fruit and vegetable stand.
The green peas suffered a setback 10 days ago when the deer had a snack during the night. My son put an additional electric fence around the peas to keep the deer out. Now we are picking, shelling, and eating green peas. Our entire garden area has a 8 foot electric fence but the deer jumped it or pushed through the wires to get to our peas. The second fence was placed just around the peas and another fence around my special garden area. Yesterday I was very careful picking the peas but not careful enough and got a pretty strong shock on my back side. My son and I wanted to test the wire when he put it up but he had to do it, so I guess I got to test it when I was picking. LOL
