Making the Best of the Worst

As you may have guessed from my previous post, I have had a gardening disaster. In other gardens I have had there have been aphids, and the aforementioned mice, but apparently in the city, the pest of choice is caterpillars. Unfortunately for me, caterpillars ate my lettuce, mint, thyme, oregano, and basil. They also succeeded in damaging other plants before deciding that they weren’t tasty. After and exhaustive internet search, I discovered that the only healthy way to get rid of the creatures was to pick them off by hand. I went for option 2, waiting them out.It has been about 3 weeks since that attack of the caterpillars, and it appears I won. They are no

longer destroying my plants, but my plants are extremely stunted in their growth.. Hopefully with

the

summer sunshine, and my new water transportation system (aka my kitchen trash can which has taken the place of my dogs water bowl

that I was using previously) my plants will make, if not a full, a satisfactory recovery and we will be able to enjoy the fruits of our labor shortly.