2007 Bernard Baudry Chinon "Les Granges"

[Thomas]

KC,

I don't mind them rubbing off a little...we do have a strange situation where two or three of the pepper plants seem to be shriveling after having produced peppers. I'm looking into it.

Vouvray, I forgot the asparagus, and we have finished the peas, too. Also have rosemary, sage, cilantro, tomatillo.

We've got the foods spread out all over the place (it's one of my plans to eliminate mowing area [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img] ). And, we have the greenhouse, which really is one of the best ideas we have ever had--gave such a head start on starting seeds as well as the ability to eat vegetables before summer even began and having salad greens all through winter--it's unheated, no electrics, just solar panels to cool it in summer.

Maybe we need a food forum for this stuff.

Don't know about your area, but we have a horrible Japanese beetle problem in NY. I spend an hour every day removing at least 100 each day into a jar of water. I particularly like getting them when they are in coital position. I read that they reproduce 500 for every one beetle. So each day, I eliminate a potential 50,000 of them.

One way to get rid of them is to have no grass lawns at all--that's where the larvae winter over.

I've threatened to pour concrete over the remaining lawn areas.

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 07-13-2009).]