[CH] Garden Critters
Alex Silbajoris (72163.1353@compuserve.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 02:46:22 -0400
Peeps,
I returned to my neglected ridgetop gardens for some harvesting last
Saturday. (I was busy with visitors from Miami FL, and we had a blast
touring the Amish areas of Ohio..) I found that some little critter had
been eating the potatoes in the ground, leaving half-spuds or empty skins.
The tomatoes already had the big green caterpillars, which were rudely
flung out into the yard before they finished defoliating the plants.
The peppers were overgrown with weeds. But with a tug and a drop of sweat
(or two) I cleared the weeds to find a decent little round of peppers
already setting fruit and just waiting to ripen. No critter damage. The
season is not over, the plants are not dead, and I await the ripening. All
I need is rain.
(But wow, am I having fun imagining Mr. Campbell's field of habs like baby
fists...)
Susan Byers and Cameron Begg, thank you once again for the selection of
peppers I have growing in my apartment garden. I'll probably harvest a few
specimens to cook up with these excellent Ohio peaches tomorrow night.
A few months ago I was making noises about having some kind of chile-head
camping trip in the Ohio River valley. A few people responded, but nothing
much happened. I want to shake that bush again - anybody have some spare
time for a sweaty brow by lantern light, before the summer is over?
Alex Silbajoris 72163.1353@compuserve.com
Astral travelling in the gardens on these warm nights