Rural Gardening: On the May Homestead, 1 by darius

darius wrote:
pod, many years ago (before half the population lived on fast food) I read that 1 in every 3 Americans secretly dreamed of owning a restaurant. Not me! I can't imagine having to cook every night for a family, much less patrons.

Some recipes read like they'd be tasty, so I copy lots of them. Once in a while I even make one of them. :)

Slowly, between rain showers, I'm getting the raspberry bed cleaned out. It's been 4-5 years and a lot of weeds have grown up in there, and there are a lot of dead (old) canes because I never mow the raspberries down... and of course, many new shoots coming up in the walkway. With all the rain forecast for the next week, it may not get finished anytime soon.

I hear that the brown marmorated stink bugs are moving further south and west. They wiped out all my tomatoes last year, so I'm thinking lightweight row covers if I can afford them. They haven't found anything that is effective against the bugs so far. If you don't know them, here's a photo. The babies look a little like the orange ladybugs at a quick glance.