I hit the August wall. Life stuff over took my garden. Good stuff, but still time was taken away from my ability to tend the garden. It happens every August. A combination of this and that. My garden is over-grown. I began taking it back yesterday. I am still getting great produce but it is out of control. I have been posting about a Fall garden. Now is the time to take it back and plan for the Fall.
What did I miss?
1. Never got my beans in to the extent I wanted.
2. My third wave tomatoes aren't growing and needed some love.
3. The weeds are happy. I never pulled the August wave.
4. The vegetables never got a round of liquid fertilizer.
5. The white-flies became a Nation.
I have been fighting white-flies for weeks. They have INFESTED my kales and kohlrabi. I picked the kohlrabi and bagged the leaves. My 2 kales, Dwarf Curled and Russian Red, I cut ALL THE LEAVES off. There must of been 1000 white-flies. I was covered in them. I basically destroyed their main habitat.
The kale stems will survive and I plan to leave them in the ground. New leaves will come and they will be part of my Fall crops.
The lady bugs never came to eat the white-flies. I am unleashing a week of fury to recapture my garden. I plant to have pictures up this week.
Ewww, white flies. I'm not sure I know what that is, but I don't think I would either. Sounds awful. Sorry to hear about the kale and kohlrabi. :(
ReplyDeleteIt was quite a mess of flies. Tiny very tiny. I was covered in them. Something new I encountered. A garden experience I suppose.
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