Saturday, August 14, 2010

Gardening day.

We got to play in the garden today. This is unusual because it is often too hot or just too mosquitoey to venture outside. Today was not quite as hot, and we covered up in bug spray. We saw this weird looking caterpillar thing on one of our tomato plants.


We also picked some corn. But, we apparently don't know much about growing corn; it tasted a bit funny or overripe or something.

At the end of our play time (after digging up many plants, etc.), we found a fun little tree frog on our house.

4 comments:

valandshawn said...
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valandshawn said...

woah!! that's a tomato hornworm covered in parasitic wasp cocoons!!

the hornworms are bad, because they will eat up your tomato plants, but the wasps kill the hornworms when they hatch, and the wasps are kinda good to have around your garden.

so--you can just leave it in your garden. =)

i love seeing all your updates!

love ya,
val

valandshawn said...

okay, i deleted my first comment because i sorta posted the same thing twice.

=)

milligans said...

Wow. Thanks Val. I was very curious, but didn't know where to begin searching for the identity of our little green friend.

Mark