{"id":5698,"date":"2013-08-29T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2016-09-26T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:11:26","slug":"oh-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5698","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0003\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7285\/9608318925_f7c26e0920.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7285\/9608318925_f7c26e0920_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0004\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3773\/9611553390_49bfe25a19.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3773\/9611553390_49bfe25a19_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0004\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0012\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5502\/9611554616_bdf03f7ced.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5502\/9611554616_bdf03f7ced_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0012\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since Andrew has been out of town a lot this summer, I have somewhat neglected our vegetable garden. I&#8217;ve been great at keeping weeds at bay, but not so great at taking the time to\u00a0<em>look.\u00a0<\/em>This means, of course, that I have completely overlooked signs of damage from pests that are easy to control until it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>This is the cabbage moth : small green caterpillars which love most of the plants we love: kale, broccoli, cabbage. It has devastated our kale in just 4 short (hot) days.<a title=\"DSC_0006\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5534\/9611553996_369123c254.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5534\/9611553996_369123c254_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0006\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the swallowtail butterfly young: large and striped, loves to feed on carrot tops, parsley, and dill.<a title=\"DSC_0013\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7329\/9611555354_4d350d26cc.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7329\/9611555354_4d350d26cc_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0013\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while picking these creatures off your plants early on can prevent some of the damage, I&#8217;m afraid we&#8217;re far beyond that stage and are going to have to go on all-out attack mode with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherearthnews.com\/organic-gardening\/how-to-use-bt-pesticide-zw0z1304zkin.aspx#axzz2dCYxYpLA\" target=\"_blank\">Bt<\/a> spray, an organic pesticide that is safe for other beneficial insects, but gets rid of caterpillars and the eggs they hatch from. And next year, I will have to stay on top of this problem, along with white flies and squash boles.<\/p>\n<p>It honestly just breaks my heart to see all of those beautiful plants destroyed so fast. And considering how much kale our family goes through every week, it is a real bummer. I guess we will be seeing less of this sight; fresh lovely (and only slightly nibbled) kale harvested just last month:<a title=\"DSC_0037\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7444\/9289236378_310930e53d.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7444\/9289236378_310930e53d_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But maybe we can save a few plants? I hope??? At least our butternut squash is coming along nicely!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0015\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3759\/9608322117_4d4cba2891.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3759\/9608322117_4d4cba2891_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0015\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A learning process, this surely is! Have you had any problems with pests in your garden? Have any tips on keeping these suckers out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Andrew has been out of town a lot this summer, I have somewhat neglected our vegetable garden. I&#8217;ve been great at keeping weeds at bay, but not so great at taking the time to\u00a0look.\u00a0This means, of course, that I have completely overlooked signs of damage from pests that are easy to control until it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh, Garden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,99],"tags":[115,173],"class_list":["post-5698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-green-living","tag-garden","tag-green-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12082,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions\/12082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}