Documenting my daily hands-on education in how to live a healthy, thoughtful, slow, connected, fulfilling, empowered, and delicious life in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I am a 24 year old doula, holistic health counselor, web designer, photographer, property manager, and aspiring herbalist and urban farmer.
Topics
Holistic Health and NutritionHerbalism & Home Remedies
Food Recipes
Homesteading
BeekeepingBirthi love
• Spontaneous Overflow• Browns Downtown Bees
• Mother Nature Gardens
• Sunstone Farm
• For the Love of Bees
• ABQ Old School
• Holy Scrap Hot Springs
• Jaunty Dame
After the squash bugs decimated our pumpkins, zucchini, and cucumbers, they moved on to our watermelons. It has been a sad summer for anything in the squash family.
After trying in vain to fight them off by hand for several weeks we finally gave up. Silvia and I spent nearly an hour every day ruthlessly squishing as many bugs, eggs and creepy spider-looking babies as we could find, and they still seemed to multiply while we weren’t looking.
So now that it appears our watermelons are also doomed and we have given up the hand-to-hand combat, we are attempting one last weapon in the war against the squash bugs: fencing the chickens in with the watermelons and letting them eat as many bugs as they can get. The watermelons are being stomped and pecked to death, but they were going to die anyway. At least this way we are hopefully ridding the world of a few more squash bugs and the little bastards are getting what they deserve.
