[Eric in the Ozarks]

Rain rain.
Lettuce was wiped out. We are getting a half dozen cherry tomatoes every day and two or three Amish Paste tomatoes each week. We had peppers, stuffed last week. One cucumber so far. Thank goodness it has stopped raining.

[greeneyes]

What?? It’s stopped raining? Not here that’s for sure. We get a breather now and then with just a few drips and then the water works start again.

[piasa]

I appear to be raising a bumper crop of sphinx moth caterpillars- I wonder if they taste better than the tomatoes they’re eating? The chickens seem to think so, but they also like tomatoes so I can’t let the chickens do the job of hunting for them.

Up north the wasps always kept the sphinx moth caterpillars in check by parasitizing the caterpillars but not so here- I have yet to find a single one with wasp eggs on it.

[piasa]

I’ll be darned... tomato hornworms ARE edible... here’s a recipe at the link:

http://www.eattheweeds.com/manduca-cuisine-eating-green-gluttons-2/