Picking a Battle With Beetles
(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)
Nicky and I are both working in the garden, but she's having a better time. Clad in a skirt and a peasant blouse, she gathers armloads of larkspur, zinnias, baby's breath and sunflowers, to make bouquets. I'm in the potato patch nearby, picking Colorado potato beetles off the plants and dropping them into a quart-size yogurt container, half-filled with dish detergent and water.
Nicky and I are both working in the garden, but she's having a better time. Clad in a skirt and a peasant blouse, she gathers armloads of larkspur, zinnias, baby's breath and sunflowers, to make bouquets. I'm in the potato patch nearby, picking Colorado potato beetles off the plants and dropping them into a quart-size yogurt container, half-filled with dish detergent and water.
