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Re: this morning

Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
> 
> My first outdoor excursion of the day is usually to pick up dog poop.  He
> goes with me to see if I can find it all, and after using one area for
> months, he makes a deposit at the other end of the yard.  Husband has been
> cleaning out tool sheds and garage, and this morning I wondered what it was
> he had dropped in the path.  It looked like a squeegee blade.  Yikes!  It
> had tentacles.  Biggest slug I've ever seen, about 8 or 9 inches long!
> Eeeuuuuwwww.  Cut it in half with the poop shovel, then buried it in what
> used to be the Yukon Gold row (I dug those already)I didn't exactly make
> rounds in the garden, partly because I planted it in such a way it's tough
> to get from one area to another.  But I have finally figured out how to
> plan the garden prior to planting time.
> 
> We use soaker hoses, and you're not supposed to exceed about 100 feet of
> soaker hose per connection.  We used to lift them in the fall and store
> them on the kiwi arbor (the kiwi vines died with my blessing after I found
> out the blossoms would frost and we wouldn't get fruit anyway), but sorting
> them out in the spring was quite a hassle.  My garden is a long triangle,
> about 40 feet deep at one end, 6 feet at the other.  The soaker hoses are
> accordingly different lengths.  I finally have the record of what hoses go
> where, so I can plan where I plant.  Furthest west are two hoses (one
> connection), next are two more that connect from the south side of the
> garden instead of the north, etc.
> 
> In making my rounds, though, I found we have three zapallo del tronco
> squash ready to pick, and the plant is making a run.  Zapallo has never
> done that to me before.  It really likes its present location, though, in a
> small garden to the east of the regular garden.  It shares that with a
> single zucchini survivor, that is not exactly overwhelming us with squash.
> Also, early morning shafts of light into the tomato jungle speared a red
> blob.  A ripe tomato!  Voila!  First one of the season.  Day before
> yesterday, I saw wasps gliding through that jungle, seeking small tomato
> hornworm larvae for their nests.  (We had no tomato hornworms last year
> except for one lost soul who ate much of a tomatillo without discovering
> his mistake.  He shoulda asked directions).
> 
> Now I've got to whet the machete and clear a path through the tomatoes that
> have overgrown the main pathway to the south side of the garden.  Sigh.
> Temperature is fine now, probably in the 70s, but will get up to 100 or so
> this afternoon.  Boo slugs!  Yay fine days!  Margaret
Margaret,
 This sounds more like the Margaret with the humorous side coming 
thru.Was the Boise, Idaho location real? If it is, at first it 
suprised me that your tomatoes are just coming on, then I looked at 
the map, and realized how far North you are. If Idaho is not where you 
reside, I guess you are still North of Indiana.
Keep after those monster slugs!
Monica
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