That’s Mrs. Paco, puttering around among the sunflowers and the vegetables – which, as you can see, are in protective custody, to save them from the depredations of rabbits and deer.
My four cotton plants produced several cotton balls this year; I’ve now got enough, I think, to make the toe section of a sock.
We hope to harvest the sweet potatoes in a few weeks, and maybe get another crop of green beans.
The extreme heat and humidity has led to a proliferation of mealy bugs, which I have combatted all summer. They don’t move very fast, so sometimes I just put on latex gloves and run my fingers down the stalks of infected plants or squeeze the leaves, sending them immediately to the bug hereafter.
