Sunflower Week 16 FLOWERS!

Akiyoshi Patrick Tan
Jul 7, 2020
1 min read

Hey everyone! So it's technically week 15 going into week 16, but I had to point out that flowers have opened up! Notice how the leaves are more ravaged by earwigs. Earwigs are apparently supposed to be beneficial (they eat insect pests and maybe dead leaves?), but in years of large amounts of rainfall (like this year), it causes a surge in earwig population. So earwigs are everywhere now. I've put earwig traps (equal parts soy sauce and olive oil (or grapeseed oil works too I guess)) and earwigs have stopped coming around so I guess it's working. It is kinda sad looking at the dying leaves though.

Anyways, I will be keeping up with the other plants. The beets are kind of all dying lol. The peppers are doing fine (peppers frankly grow really slow). The blueberries are ripe! Raspberries are nowhere to be seen lol. Cucumbers are growing. And the Onions have flowered.