For my fellow gardening friends New info on fighting this pest. The Yellow striped cucumber beetle will spread disease on your cucumbers and other curcurbits. I read to use a yellow tray, fill it with soap and water. I tried this and added vegetable oil, also. It is now filling up with the YSCB...
My Veranda type tomatoes are starting to ripen in my greenhouse. Such a treat after a long winter. More for fun than anything. The little ones in my life love to pluck and eat.
We are having our coldest winter in years. My greenhouse is loaded with my own Amaryllis hybrids. I repotted them 2 summers ago, and they are huge and glorious. I spend my days in there, starting my early veggies and being surround by the Amaryllis. I have gone back to my treadmill in my cellar...