I feel the need to share my most recent garden drama. Yes, I said garden (it is drama because I'm obsessed with my garden this summer and have put a lot of time and $$ into it, therefore it counts). Anyhoo, I went to our backyard to check out my garden after work yesterday and to do some trimming on my 6 tomato plants. To my utter surprise and disgust I discovered the top half of my plants completely stripped of all flowers and leaves. "WTF?!?!," I say to myself. These plants did NOT look like this 2 days ago! Then upon further up-close inspection I find gigantic green caterpillars disguising themselves amongst the plants, eating EVERYTHING in site. I was pissed. I still am, actually. Needless to say, I freaked and immediately called Mom. She suggested pulling them off immediately (ew!) and then researching some sort of powdery spray. So I waited til Mike got home and bombarded him with the news (that he had to help) We googled to find out what they were, grabbed garden gloves and an empty coffee can and got to work. These suckers were impossible to see and we found about 10. Mike came up with the idea to feed them to the fish in the pond. They were gobbled up immediately to our delight and I do hope they suffered in their death because like I said before, I'm still pissed. These f'ers are called Tomato Hornworm and they will die and never return if there is anything I have to say about this- that is a green thumbed promise.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Oh No They Didn't!
I feel the need to share my most recent garden drama. Yes, I said garden (it is drama because I'm obsessed with my garden this summer and have put a lot of time and $$ into it, therefore it counts). Anyhoo, I went to our backyard to check out my garden after work yesterday and to do some trimming on my 6 tomato plants. To my utter surprise and disgust I discovered the top half of my plants completely stripped of all flowers and leaves. "WTF?!?!," I say to myself. These plants did NOT look like this 2 days ago! Then upon further up-close inspection I find gigantic green caterpillars disguising themselves amongst the plants, eating EVERYTHING in site. I was pissed. I still am, actually. Needless to say, I freaked and immediately called Mom. She suggested pulling them off immediately (ew!) and then researching some sort of powdery spray. So I waited til Mike got home and bombarded him with the news (that he had to help) We googled to find out what they were, grabbed garden gloves and an empty coffee can and got to work. These suckers were impossible to see and we found about 10. Mike came up with the idea to feed them to the fish in the pond. They were gobbled up immediately to our delight and I do hope they suffered in their death because like I said before, I'm still pissed. These f'ers are called Tomato Hornworm and they will die and never return if there is anything I have to say about this- that is a green thumbed promise.
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