Last night I harvested the first of my carrots, I love it when the garden finally starts to produce. There is so much satisfaction in harvesting and eating healthy home grown produce.
I pulled about 40 carrots, only 1/4 of my total carrot patch, I am going to be freezing and canning a lot of carrots this year, if all goes well.
The warm weather has arrived, after a long cool spring and an unusually cold June. As soon as the temperatures reached the high 80’s my summer squash started to bloom like crazy and already there are two “Cue Ball” zucchini squash ready to for harvest.
When I was doing my daily walk around the yard I noticed my broccoli.
Some light green worms were munching away happily, I can’t believe all the damage that was done in one day! The leaves look terrible, but the centers, where the broccoli flower grows look untouched, so I don’t think at this point the broccoli crop is lost.
I picked about 40 caterpillar/worms off the plants and fed them to the chickens (the birds loved them!). I hope I got most of them, I will be checking again carefully for the next several days to make sure they are all gone.
I pray they haven’t done too much damage.
I am also very thankful that my family doesn’t depend on our garden for food!
Those pesky worms! Your carrots look great, though. The worms remind me of the Little House books when the grasshoppers eat all the wheat. Reading about that always makes me so mad!
Did you pick off the worms or did your kids do it? Cause I wouldn't be touching any worms. LOL
That's why I don't do broccli!
Nice carrots! Ha! I like American Homemaker's comment… did you? Or was it the kiddos??
Your carrots look so good! We grew carrots a couple of years ago and ate them as quickly as they grew. This years our carrots didn't come up, even after a second planting. I am hoping to try again in the fall garden.
Darn those bugs. I hate finding bite marks in the leaves. Good luck getting rid of them.
*hugs*
soap and water sprayed on the leaves…or water with cayenne pepper mixed in..keeps the buggers away because it gives them a horrible taste in their mouths…