bad aphids

The garden is coming along.





I expected tomatoes by now but have mostly flowering buds, no tomatoes yet. Hope it's just due to planting them deeper this year (a friend told me to plant them deeper and they will produce bigger tomatoes). It would be a serious bummer to have put in all that work and get no tomatoes in return. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and trying not to worry too much yet. It's still early.


The romaine lettuce is jamming! But yesterday evening I found colonies of aphids on most of them. So after work today I need to de-bug the lettuce. Will use a soap insecticide of water and ivory soap. At least those nasty salad-eatin' aphids will be clean before they die.


BAD APHID