As things started to get warm this summer (i.e. late June), we got some major aphid infestations. I didn’t catch it right away and it was pretty bad on my cabbage. I used an organic spray called EcoSMART which contains Rosemary Oil, Peppermint Oil, Thyme Oil, and Clove Oil. It doesn’t smell very bad. They…
Cabbage, Summer Crop 13
Summer 2013 Report – Cabbage
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The cabbage was moderately successful. We’ll try again next year and should be able to do better. I planted three white cabbage and three red cabbage plants. The red cabbage was growing well and then got a rather large aphid infestation. I was able to fight the infestation but didn’t catch it until it had…
Broccoli, Summer Crop 13
Summer 2013 Report – Broccoli
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This was a failure. I’ve heard that broccoli is not a summer plant. That seems to be the case. It started to flower early and while I had four plants that all grew well, there was little edible broccoli produced. What I did get tasted bitter. I’m assuming that’s because it was just about to…
Peppers, Summer Crop 13
Summer 2013 Report – Peppers
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I planted four different pepper plants, three chile peppers and one bell pepper. The chile pepper plants took a while but eventually produced a lot of peppers. These were great on salads and other foods, not too spicy. But they were spicy enough that you couldn’t eat a lot at one time. Jenny pickled a…
Cucumbers, Summer Crop 13
Summer 2013 Report – Cucumbers
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As Jenny reported, the cucumbers were easy to deal with and produced TONS of cucumbers. I planted four of these and they took over a four by four section of the raised bed and spread over the sides as well. No special care was required. It may look like there are no cucumbers. Then once…