Category: plants

Early Garden

I love planning the garden, buying the seeds or starts, and planting the garden. Seeing the first few plants break the ground is always a comfort to me. Mint is growing everywhere, onions are popping […]

Potato Beetles, Residual Herbicide, and Blister Beetles

It’s a 1-2-3 punch for this year’s potato plants.  My poor potatoes.  They looked so beautiful when they first came up.  Then they seemed to be struggling.  They had curled leaves and were generally scraggly […]