I hate them green horn worms, too... We put sabildilla dust on 'em which is like ground up oyster shells which they eat and it messes up their tummy. Tough beans, worms. Get over it! No, don't...
Speakin' of critters. I think it might have something to do with the cicadas we had this year but this is the year of the mole (which doesn't really bug me) and it's smaller buddy, the vole. The vole eats plant roots and loves hostas. It comes outta holes from the mole tunnels and eats 'um right at ground level. We've got a dozen mousetraps set at the holes they come out of and have killed about 60 of them in the last month. They haven't outright killed too much since we catch 'um before they kill a plant and take the plant out and put it in our plant hospital to recoperate.
No ripe tomatoes yet. Looks like another 10 days on the early ones Snap beans will be ready for daily pickins about Sunday. Egg plant in a week. Peppers, two weeks. Squash and cukes are slow this year.
Blooming: habiscus (blue native), flox (3 varieties), cosmos, coreopsis, lavendar, hydrangia, manarta (red with lots of humming bird activity), cleomee (pink) just blooming, butterfly bush (have both monarchs and swallowtails).
Bird activity: Too many juvenile blue jays! Young finches (gold and house) are a trip with their bickering at each other, titmouse, nuthatch youngins, cickodee, wrens, piliated woodpeckers (no off spring this year), lots of younf hairy and downey woodpecker along with young red bellied. No red headed woodpeckers at all this year though the piliated are entertaining enough. The cardinal had only two babies who I think are male and female. Kinda hard to tell since they are both still juvenile...
Thats it from up here on the Blue Ridge Mountin in Wes Ginny...
Anyone have a line on sabadilla dust? We can't seem to find it anymore???