Garden Update #what is original

Nothing much in particular happened this week beyond the usual. On Monday (the 18th), we harvested

and as always, the amount of tomatoes vastly outnumbered the amount of zucchini, okra, and pepper.

This makes me feel bad for the produce other than the tomatoes

Summary: everything is doing adequately well except for the all the squash (zucchini, cantaloupe, pink jumbo banana squash) which seem to either be rotting or dying.

One other thing, Ms. Bauer mentioned this thing called neem oil. It apparently can be used as a fungicide, pesticide, and generally does not cause any harm to bees, butterflies, and ladybugs. This would be useful in a garden especially this year, we had issues with bugs and fungi growing on some of our plants (squash). Here are links to two websites that I found that talk about neem oil in case you want to know more. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/pesticides/neem-oil-uses.htm (has information about and how to use neem oil) http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/neemgen.html (has general information about neem oil). You could probably also just google it.

And that wraps it up this time. See ya next week!