We Won The Battle But Lost The War

A couple of weeks ago Lisa and I tried a technique on some of the pumpkin plants hoping to save them.  There is a grub that gets into the stem of the plant and if you catch it early enough your can get rid of it by using a straight pin.  We followed the directions and it looked like we won the battle because the plant continued to thrive until it died and the two pumpkins died too.  So we ended up taking up two Pumpkin plants, a zucchini plant, almost all of the acorn plants and a couple of butter crisp plants which means we lost the war.  However, we have become expert cucumber growers.  We had another bumper crop yesterday  and we will be pickling today.  We are going to try sugar free bread and butter pickles.  Lisa's brother is a diabetic and so we are going to try and make them with stevia so he have some. Another update, the bites that I received when I was planting the beets a few days ago were not gnats but chiggers so now I hate chiggers, ugh!  Check back tomorrow for an update on the barn, it is coming along.