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VEGETABLE GARDENING—Looking over the garden wail the main problem this year has been the weather. For many of our garden varieties, it has been a season of excesses. Unseasonably warm and dry in early spring, turning cold and wet followed by a prolonged dry spell. In some cases pollination was reduced and seemed like those first tomatoes and early roasting ears would never ripen.
Topping the list of vegetable diseases is the bean mosaic virus. Yellow mottling, distortion of the leaves, is typical. This is a seed-born disease for which there is no chemical control. The leading insect enemy has been the flea bettle. This tiny, black flea-like critter started earlier, and is staying latter and in larger numbers than I ever remember. Looking at the county as a whole, the Japanese bettle population, after the first flush has tapered off. I believe the Japanese Beetle population peaked out last year and for at least the next several years their numbers will continue to decline, regardless of whether or not you use the expensive spore dust.
If the soil is most enough, now is the time to seed your fall vegetables such as dry land cress, kale, turnips, spinach, betts and leaf lettuce.C
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