Ugh, bugs

[Marcella Peek]

We've had four tomatoes from the garden so far. Very exciting as we usually don't get any until July! The herbs are growing very well. The problem is the lettuce.

Yesterday I went out and cut some for a salad with dinner. Into the salad spinner for a soak and YUCK. Thousands upon thousands of little green bugs. Aphids I suspect. After three soaks and a couple very thorough rinsings I was still seeing little bugs. Darn things are everywhere. We had spinach salad instead ;-)

Should I just dig it up and chalk it up to a lesson learned? Any suggestions for growing lettuce with fewer bugs in the future?

The bugs aren't on anything else in the garden that I could see. But boy they love that lettuce.

thanks marcella

[George.com]

I had 2 nice juicy ripe tomatos for tea tonight. Nothing much to get excited about you may say except that I live in New Zealand and we are in the throes of winter here. Going to get down to zero tonight so will have a frost. The

3 tomato plants in my (unheated) polytunnel are still producing fruit, though they have had whats looks like late blight hit them recently. I keep wondering when they will give up yet they are still trucking on.

rob