Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects #11, 0 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Karen, We have an overflowing veggie bed, but we still love going to the farm stand too for corn and gossip. Both have been juicy this summer. We have a dear friend who use to live next door before selling out fora house in Maine coming tomorrow for the week. She is bringing lobsters so we will pick up some corn to go with our own potatoes which are doing nicely this year. Swiss chard has especially thrived too and we have had a bumper crop of tomatoes. DH put up nearly 40 big jars of sauce already. I have frozen 12 trays of slow roasted cherry tomatoes so far.

We had a nice GH surprise this morning. A big white Epi in bloom. And then we had some luck, though this is kind of sad, as we are killing off some moles. I like the moles, but not the voles that live in their tunnels. But worse is that we have 2 very destructive dogs who keep digging up the yard to attack the underground critters, so we must get rid of the moles. We have tried moving them along with organic mole repellant, which hasn't really worked as the moles only move to a virgin area on our property and then the dogs dig that up next. Parts of our yard looks like a mine field. DH got a contraption that he has hooked up to the exhaust on the car and is gassing them. 2 dead that we know about since last night as the dog proudly dug them up. I won't make you look at the pictures. Patti