Lafayette Organic Gardening

Here is a picture of a “hornworm” that we found yesterday munching on our potato plants (Jodie Frey found one last week on one of her tomatoes). Hornworms feed on plants of the nightshade family (tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant), and are the larvae of several large sphinx moth species, aka hawk moths.

Thankfully, still no sign of late blight that we can find – see front page story in the Morning Call today – it sounds truly devastating

3-inch caterpillar of the Carolina Sphinx (a "hornworm")

Hi all, returned to our garden patch after a week at the beach – wow, how things change! We are about to be inundated with cucumbers, beans, squash, tomatoes, etc etc. Any of you growing potatoes need to keep an eye out for Colorado potato beetles (Google it for pics) – we found some little ones muching away on ours, which we destroyed by squashing or clipping off the infested parts and bagging them. No sign of the late blight though

Finally, there are a few plots that are about waist-high in weeds – please hack these down before they go to seed – see the terms and conditions of your plot agreement

Dave the Enforcer Brandes