You need to kill that hornworm now. If she doesn’t want to touch it, flip it off the plant with a stick knife etc & step on it. Make sure you get bt-k. I use dipel dust, you just shake it on.

No worries....it didn't survive much after the picture was taken. Fortunately, I was home and was able to dispatch it.

Thanks for the dipel dust suggestion, will get some and get on the plants this weekend. I haven't seen them on my pepper plants, should I dust them also or a hornworm won't mess with them?

Sorry for the rookie questions but I am a rookie

You can it won’t hurt anything. They usually just hit my tomatoes but I usually have 25-30 plants and that’s what they prefer. Spread it out at dusk, sunlight decreases bt”s potency.

Berries are ripening! Yum!

Berries look good. Mine seem to have stalled about here:

Noticed weird looking bugs on veggie plants. Looks like a STINK BUG. Are they harmful? How to get rid of?

can you get a pic?


I like to use lady bugs & praying mantis' for stink bugs, there's also sprays you can use.

Everything is coming alone nicely.

Tomatoes here




Mixed veggies and stuff



Little leaf cucumbers



Jubilee watermelon. Pretty excited about these.



1st squash of the year



Bird or rat/mouse got to my first red tomato despite the rodeo clown scarecrow.



Beefsteaks



Figs are coming in strong



Pears may never do right. They tend to turn brown before they're ready to pick.

looks good cman

I pick my tomatoes at first blush.

Do you buy green bananas?

I plan on wrapping a few of these in newspaper, put them in a brown paper bag, and place it inside of my dark pantry. I've done it in the past and they kept for over a month. They were not as good as vine ripened but better than store bough.

half of those pickles/cucumbers are way too big.

Looking good Payne!

Potatoes, tomatoes and eggplant seems to be the only thing we can get going this year. Wind, and hail have been tough on us.

looks great

Payne do you make any wine with those grapes?

No sir, just eat them. Tito's is my poison.

Tito's is good stuff!

Are those Mustang grapes?

flames

First cantaloupe sighting.

Don't count on it yet, had several, now have one.

Here you go. These have been in the pantry for little over a month. I plan to leave the remaining ones wraped and put them in the refrigerator.



I left the dripper on a couple of my tomatoes and they took a second growth. Looks as if I will now have tomatoes through July.