Nottoway park

Nottoway park
Hunter House facing gardens

Monday, June 20, 2016

June 20th first day of summer


I watered today, and replenished the depleted rain barrel. The rain barrel holds 55 gallons. 
Our new next-door neighbor, Juanita , did a beautiful job enclosing plot 17 with a wire fence. The garden looks so much better than it had last week – the weeds are mostly gone and she has actually put in some plants!  I am so impressed – I think back on how long it took Ginny and Me to put up the fence around our plot, and the fence doesn't look so great! Oh well, so it goes.
 I sprayed for whitefly last week with the insecticidal soap I got fromMary-field  Garden center. The Man I asked for advice told me it would kill on contact, and he was right. I don't see any evidence of any eggs or nasty White stuff. Hopefully this will improve the-yield on the tomatoes and brussels sprouts. I guess I need to keep a supply of the insecticidal soap on hand in the event that I get re-infested.
I did harvest some garlic on Sunday, it is drying out in our garage.
Beautiful day, blue skies and white fluffy clouds. The day started out nice and cool but by the afternoon was in the 90s.