We're back! The girls and I spent two full weeks in the Yakima valley. We worked on our tans, our swimming skills, celebrated two birthdays and even built a giant wet banana and a solar oven! We had tons of fun! Andy was hard at work here at home, but couldn't keep our garden from scorching in this heat. :( Our chard is charred, our lettuce is limp, and our beets have taken a beating from the sun's rays. We will do our best to recover before Saturday, but we can't control the weather and we can only do the best we can. I still hope it goes well.
Below is a photo I took of our natural pesticide. We disperse lady bugs on our garden beds to keep the aphids down. The aphids eat our veggies and the lady bugs eat the aphids. It seems to work well. We also have a sack of preying mantis eggs waiting to hatch in the front beds. Last year, Andy brought an egg sack inside because it wasn't warm enough to hatch just yet and they hatched inside the house! He came home and there were baby preying mantises everywhere!
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