We're being eaten out by Flea Beetles. They eat huge holes in the plants and turn them into skeletons. They particularly like eggplant and potato leaves. We're going organic, so we're faced with some pretty mediocre choices in getting rid of them. They've decimated the eggplant already, but the potatoes should be okay, they're much hardier than the baby eggplants. We're combating with diatomaceous earth and yellow sticky cards. Over the weekend we'll add some neem oil to the ground to suffocate the eggs. The diatomaceous earth is a very fine powder that acts like glass to tiny bugs and cuts them and they lose water and dry up.
In other garden news, we harvested a round of lettuce and spinach. Here was tonight's dinner:
Last weekend Roger harvested the compost from the worm bin. It yielded maybe 20 pounds of good worm compost. He then moved the worms and their eggs into a fresh bin.
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