First, I nearly sold out at the Marshall Farmer's Market this morning. What a nice feeling. I sold all of my odd looking zucchini, the two new baskets of mulberries Dan and I picked last night, my lettuces, almost all my beets and peas, and all my cilantro and scallions. I received a lot of comments about my choice to grow heirloom vegetables. It gave me a bit of a lift!
Off to home, where I had priming and painting to do in our study. I did that with Dan for a while (ana was at Grandma's so we could get the room done) ... and it was rather ho-hum and the fumes started to get to me. So, I went out to check on my patch of winter squash. Now is time for the bad surprise. Squash vine borers. Ugh. All of one type of squash was killed. And I found several other plants with eggs under the vines, or newly burrowed larvae, or BOTH! So, I spent a good part of the early afternoon squashing the eggs that I could find (which was totally gross and not at all like squeezing plastic bubble wrap which is what I kept telling myself it was), and then talking Dan into fishing out the larvae before the plants die. As fun as egg smooshing and larvae fishing is, we never got to finish the job because then Dan's good friend Tim called. He was only an hour away and wanted to visit for the day. Woo Hoo! Saved from the larvae!
So, Tim and Dan had a grand time touring the farm, the pasture, and Marshall. And I got to call it quits of the eggs (ew). We had a great time visiting with Tim.
We didn't get the room finished and the vines need to be tended to tomorrow still. But hey, it was a great day. And now it's time for bed.
Good night all.
Oh, and here's a cute picture of Ana for the grandparents.
1 comment:
Oh so cute! Ana that is, not the squash worms. I'm glad you had fun. Raising produce and take them to market is hard work, no doubt about that.
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