Anyone remember Teddy Ruxpin? Thanks to my sister (who listened to him almost every night) , I have that song memorized, and it's been popping into my head lately.
Well, we did get some good rain one day this week. It didn't last long, but it did fill up our rain barrels that my husband had just finished a couple days before. Yea! Now I want more barrels. With the 100+ degree days we've been having, I'm going to use up all the water fairly quickly.
We have a few plants that are still growing/producing, but most everything seems to have stalled. Our asparagus beans are still producing. I even put some new seeds in the ground last week and they have sprouted and seem to be taking off.
Our gourds are also taking off. While our pumpkin leaves are wilting in this heat, the gourd plants are doing really well.
A is posing with his bottle gourd. He wants to make his own berimbau which is an instrument used in capoeira. He's really excited that it's growing fairly quickly.
Our gourds are currently being attacked by cucumber beetles. Normally, they enjoy our cucumber plants, but since it's too hot for those, they have moved onto our gourd flowers. So, we've been spraying garlic spray and squishing the ones we can see - here is A in action:
It's a shame, because they can be such pretty bugs.
no fair- we havent had any rain to fill our rain barrels.
ReplyDeletethat is really cool about making a gourd instrument. we have talked about trying it too.
Even in our tropical climate, rain is shying away for weeks.... Quite a size, those barrels!
ReplyDeleteHappy Gardening,
~ bangchik