Hey greeneyes & all! Enjoy it while it lasts! We got a cool front this week (bonus heavy rains) & it’s sure been nice. It was HOT before that.
We had Mia, our little Eskie girl up at A&M last week (mixed bag- good news & scary news that’s still ongoing- no answers yet. Scary because she has been seen by the best), so some of my stuff (squash, cowpeas, & corn) is going to be late. Everything else is up & running (turnips, beets, carrots, okra + herbs). We’re getting strawberries one by one from the little hanging basket, but they are sweet & delicious!
There is something weird on the leaves of my Valley Cat tomatoes. It looks like the image (lighter than the leaf itself) of a long thin worm that’s kind of curling around. I need to figure out how to post pictures. I don’t know what this is.
But they’re blooming, so hoping for tomatoes.
Adding my wishes for everyone’s health & prosperity. And God Bless you, too.
sockmonkey, I think I found you some trees. The place doesn’t have a sign that I can tell (maybe attached to a little restaurant next door?), but it’s on the way to my vet in Somerset, so I’ll be back over there & soon. It’s on 1604 between I35 South & Old Pearsall Road. I’ll holler.
I would pick those little worms off get rid of them, I think.
Hope you get some good news in your mixed bag of Mia news. TAMU is supposed to be the best.
I think it is a leaf miner, and it only has a bottom jaw, so it makes those scrapy shapes. When I see those, I cut the leaf off, and dispose of it. I think they carry some kind of blight, so, they are little jerks.
I await the 411 on the no name tree place.
The little green worms are probably small caterpillars. They drop out of the trees on a line of silk and will land on a leafy plant and cause the leaves to roll into a cigarette shape. I pulled a dozen off my hickory and pecan trees this week. I hate to do it but it looks as if I’ll need to spray.