Week of June 23rd

The squash had powdery mildew. I treated this with a garlic spray that I brewed in my house. We’ll see how it takes.

Just ate quinoa pesto pasta with grilled veggies that was unreal. Ate with friend Mgabe and Danielle. The pesto we made using the finest basil tips from the garden. We made a vegan version of the traditional pesto only using basil, 2 packets of pine nuts, garlic, and olive oil. We blended it using the Magic Bullet and it was sooo good. We did that 3 days ago. The garden is looking bigger today. We have a lot of tomatoes that are ripening.

Yesterday we made an arugula salad with my mom that was soo good. In total we harvested just enough for us to eat it all. The soybeans are taking some time. And the past few nights Danielle and I have gone slug hunting. Last night we went out with chopsticks and took down probably around 40-50 slugs. They are living in a symbiotic relationship with the mushrooms that are growing in the area (which also only come out at night) and the slugs eat the mushrooms. The problem (we think) is that when the slugs are finished eating their mushrooms they go onto the plants (as noted last week when I caught some on my soybean plants at 3AM).

Anyway got to go finish eating my grilled veggies.