so, this afternoon while checking the pumpkin plants and the cucumbers, i came across a really big bug. so, i decided to take a picture of it. then i took pictures of tomatoes...then pests. ew. so, the bug that started it all:
some tomatoes:
momotaro flowers
fruit tomatoes. i am beginning to wonder if they'll ever turn red. are they a green tomato??
tomatoes which sasha picked. and ate.
fruit tomatoes which are getting damaged by the wind.
cherry tomatoes which are turning red.
now, pests. basically caterpillars. ew. the green ones eat the tomatoes and they (the tomatoes) stay green. but the orangey-yellow one made the tomato black and gross.
lastly...the potato pests (orange with black spots, not ladybugs) moved to the eggplants
and are starting in on the tomatoes:
i've been squishing them and didn't find any while out photographing. that's a good thing, right?
and a last photo, a successfully pollinated kabocha (done between downpours):
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Great garden but of those caterpillars! Im with you on those... I have never had a big garden but when I had a little one and grew everything only to find a hole in a veggie? Sad.
tracy
Lovely photos of most un-lovely bugs.
I've been having too many close encounters with pests recently. I hope yours stay in the garden.
Wow Illahee- you make bugs look good!
The potato bugs are vicious this year, aren't they? I hope not finding any while taking pictures means you've got them all!
As for the really BIG bug? I've got two of those and they don't even wait until the tomatoes are read. Sigh. Yours is way cuter...
I wonder if I will ever be able to garden with all those BUGS! YUCK! However, those tomatoes look worth it. I heard on tv that if you cut back the leaves covering tomatoes that they will ripen better. Might try that with the fruit ones. This advice from one without a single bloom on her tomato plants. Oh well, hubby DID water them a few times while I was gone!
kim, the reason why we have so many weeds is that at a certain point...they get so high that i'm afraid to touch them because of bugs. and i am especially afraid of suzumebatchi building a nest in the ground and me finding it....
Love all the veggies you're growing. Curses on all those bugs those. : )
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