Bye Bye Cucumbers

Here I am a few weeks ago in my lively, and lovely, cucumber patch. Sadly, cucumber beetles and squash bugs took over and, in the end, won. Our plants put up a valiant fight and we were able to harvest, and donate tons of cucumbers to pantries and summer lunch programs around the community. A week ago, I made the decision to pull the plants along with all of the squash and pumpkins that were planted in the same area. It was sad. But, then it was happy as we planted spinach, salad, kale, chard and radishes. They are coming up and happy so far. I am excited to see how they fare as the weather cools. We have row covered and are adding a small low tunnel to the kale and some salad to help it last longer into cool weather.