Yesterday I spent several hours at my plot. Aside from weed whacking and pruning the weeds in the community garden paths, I:
- chopped down the Red Gold potato plants and two more tomato plants because of blight
- dug all the fingerling potatoes volunteers from the path
- dug one plant of Red Gold's
- pulled fat green caterpillars off the cabbage
- watched the favas and zucchini grow for a while
- admired the lettuce
- harvested on garlic bulb to see if they're ready yet
- sprayed potato and tomato plants heavily with copper soap
Hello,
ReplyDeleteWhat is copper soap? Is this effective on the blight?
Thanks in advance!
I love vegetable garden and spent most of my time in my garden,
ReplyDeleteWas the garlic bulb ready?
ReplyDeleteVery happy to read that you watch your plants growing closely, too! I thought there might be something wrong with me…
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what copper soap actually is. The brand I bought is called "Concern" and it was in a nice spray bottle at the hardware store. It works well against blight on my tomatoes it seems to me.
ReplyDeleteTh garlic bulb was fine, but I probably should have let it sit int eh sun to dry a week or so as the wrappers were thick.
Tina, I think its considered OK as long as you don't talk to them. (I generally pretend its Skippy I'm talking to.)