ASSASSINS!!

I've been noticing chunks and chews being taken throughout the garden and now I know why. They are called Tomato Hornworms, but they are actually caterpillars, go figure.

I found a website telling me as an organic gardener I should put in companion plants that would attract a certain type of miniature parasitic wasp. (Click on that, it's pretty awesome.) I'm not sure if there's room for anymore plants, so I'm just going to put a 25¢ bounty on each of them and let Julie Stone's kids make a little extra cash.

Potatoes fulfill their destiny.

And their destiny was delicious. On Friday I dug up and passed out most of the potatoes for people  to enjoy. Not sure what everybody else did with theirs, but mine were damn tasty.

These will not be my last crop of potatoes that's for sure.

This is what 32 Southern California days will get you

We're 32 days into the summer planting effort and it's pretty fair to say things are exploding. I went out of town for a week ( thanks for the coverage Shannon) and came back to a lot of green stuff. It shouldn't be long before there's a lot of red, yellow, and orange stuff to go with it. Stay tuned.

Looks like there's gonna be jack-o-lanterns for the whole office.

The beans are going bonkers. I might should have put in a taller trellis.