Recovered over $45: Dinner completely out of the garden and some garden pests and problems

After being out of town for four days, I returned to an abundance!  The growth in that little time was amazing.  The next two pictures are what I harvested Sunday night. So far, we have recouped over $45 dollars out of the garden!  Only going to get better!

For dinner tonight, I fried the okra in a milk batter and sauteed the onion, green bean, Thai chili, and squash. I also took some of the tomato's and made a pint of tomato sauce for use later.

This reminds me, I need to clean the stove top!  Ooops.

For the pests, came across a couple.  The dreaded squash bug and the corn earworm!  The squash bugs I killed by soaking the plant with water and waiting for them to crawl up away from the water.  Then spray them with a mixture of dawn soap and water.  They die pretty quickly.

I inspected the corn and found one ear with the silk dead and discolored.  Opened it up and low and behold, hello mister corn earworm!  Killed it and looked through the rest of the corn and didn't see anymore, but they are still out there.

I did have some blossom end rot using the grow bags.  The watering hasn't been consistent enough and when it isn't, calcium can't get to the fruit and thus the rot.  Probably about 10-12 tomato's.  I've since placed some of the bags in a kids pool and kept an inch or so of water with great results.

Three Sisters Garden (TSG): Corn update......Squash planted

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Just a quick update.  The corn is doing very well.  We'll see how it turns out.  The corn is on average about 2 inches tall.  I direct sowed 9 squash and 3 zucchini.  3 of the squash was butternut, 6 are crookneck, and the 3 zucchini are black beauty.

By the look of things, the pole beans will probably be direct sown next Saturday and that will complete my first three sisters garden.

The plan, as this huge amount of corn is ripe, is too obviously eat some with dinner but for the rest, I'm going to let it dry on the stalk and then store it whole.  The best stalk of corn I will save for seed next year.




I may have gotten a little overzealous with the two grow bags!

Part of the plan with this garden is to also minimize having to buy seeds year-after-year.  I also believe that genetically, the plants will adapt to the environment and be stronger in successive years.