I have lots of foliage but not a lot of fruit in my garden. The ants haven't gone away completely and the peppers look pretty sorry. Now the mealybugs are showing up. Arrrghghhh! I'm simply going over each plant and squashing the little suckers, and I'll spray more garlic pepper tea this evening. I have to put down more mulch, what's out there is wearing a little thin.

I had my son working on a brick area that was taken over by lemon balm. He worked all of about 5 minutes. How am I going to teach these kids to garden if that's all the time they spend out there? After getting up at noon? He wants an allowance this summer, he'll have to work for it.

SRS