First things first: the wedding was amazing. Katey and I were so pleased to be surrounded by friends and family on our big day. The outpouring of support and love was humbling, and it is truly a day that we'll never forget.
Now, on to other news: the garden is in trouble, and I don't think there's much we can do about it. We knew we had a grasshopper problem, but we thought we had it under control.
We were SO wrong.
We pulled into the driveway and, before unloading a thing, went straight out to the garden, expecting to see zucchini and winter squash growing like wildfire, lettuce ready to be cut, onions and peppers progressing nicely towards a fall breakfast, and big, ripe tomatoes. Instead, we found what amounts to an agricultural slaughter: onions consumed right down to the dirt, no potato plants at all, barren butternut squash stalks devoid of all leaves, half-eaten green peppers, no lettuce to speak of, and evidence that the six-legged culprits were starting in on the tomatoes. Miraculously, it seems they've tired of our basil.
We don't know what to do. We're about 3 weeks away from harvesting the potimarron squash (lets hope they make it) and a month from the butternut squash - we might still get 3 or 4 if we're lucky.
I'll be frantically searching for organic cures (so far, chickens seem to be the best option - alas, we are two weeks away from 50 to 75 chicks arriving here at the homestead).
Updates about the rescue effort will be forthcoming.
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