Mixed new potatoes, red currants and some delicious white currants.
The girls were helping me do all the harvesting today which consisted of new potatoes (and a couple a bit longer in the tooth), shelling peas, currants, a few cherries and a bunch currant sized wild strawberries.
Colorado Potato Beetle eggs are in orange clusters under the leaves.
There were some Colorado Potato Beetle larvae and eggs but not in plague like proportions. I'd like to thank the predators that were also hanging out on the potato foliage such as daddy longlegs. Ladybugs, ground beetles, lacewings, spined soldier bug, two-spotted stinkbug, parasitic wasps and two fly species also prey on CPB eggs or larvae according to Growing Potatoes Organically by Canadian Organic Growers.
Young larvae of the Colorado Potato Beetle munching away. I take care of them with my crushing fingers.
We also 'harvested' a couple chickens this week. As I have not parted a chicken's life since I was a little girl on a hobby farm back in the day, we did two this week as practice before the girls witnessed the event. However, they did quite happily come out for the processing afterward.
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Don't Scroll Down if you aren't a fan of eating meat.
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My former Non Gardening Partner, now Garden Helper and Poultry Processer.
By the way, the girls named them all. The first two, that are currently sitting in our freezer, were known as Bomb and Plasma.
The kids love the chickens in both forms - pet and plate.
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Colorado Potato Beetle
Good Video on how to slaughter a chicken.
