This is my zone 8b Louisiana garden journal.
It is very important to know the difference between your beneficial and pest insects. This will help you identify what needs to be controlled and which ones are well under control by your beneficial insects. This is why I don’t indiscriminately spray everything with remedies without doing some scouting first.
I have been harvesting my winter vegetables and leaving some plants to make seeds for later. I also took time to enjoy the flowers in bloom. Stay tuned for future updates on my tomato trellis and okra growing experiments. A final update is coming soon for the winter greenhouse tomatoes and I will try growing cantaloupes and cucumbers in the greenhouse to hopefully avoid cucumber beetles this year. The squash vines borer is back and I have been picking the eggs off my squash lately. I have been trying more organic remedies and I want to review and report my results later on.
Lake Mary Gardens 