Out of House and Home
Image via Wikipedia The bean beetles are early this year, and, combined with the drought, the beans are under stress. We have few enough plants that we (read: I) can apply digital pest control: squishing the prickly yellow larvae between thumb and index fingers. But if I miss a day, more eggs have hatched. And the squash: lots of empty flower stalks where yellow crookneck squash should be. Something is nipping them off before they set fruit. Speaking of fruit–it’s black bear-y season. We …