So life got the better of me, it’s time for many updates!
May-June brought heavy rains to our area. The garden at the height of it, was over an ankle deep and stayed that way for several weeks. This greatly effected my yield. Still, I’m grateful to have a ‘harvest’ as modest as it is! Peppers and tomatoes produced well.. and I still have several to pick throughout this next week. We have a watermelon growing, a few cucumbers, green beans, strawberries.. this was a great experience, and we have a few ideas of ways to get through this Hurricane Season and protect my next crops from heavy rains! The chief frustration was the several weeks, following the heavy rains, where I combated the onslaught of catapillars and grasshoppers invading every limb. It took persistence in being present in the garden several hours a day, physically relocating these guys away. The hard work paid off, as I maintained an organic garden for this first production.
