05/13/2025
We eat the holey greens around here!
We are accustomed to "perfect" food in the grocery store- a reason so much goes to waste.
If we have a hole in something, or a bad spot, we wash it, remove it, etc and eat the rest! We try to avoid insecticides, even organic ones. We use row covers a lot to keep the bugs out. Planting a variety of herbs, flowers, and smelly vegetables (onions, garlic, etc) can really help too.
If something is munching on your plants it means your garden is a crucial part of the ecosystem, and it doesn't mean you can't still eat it! By overusing insecticides it disrupts that delicate balance, and a lot of times they come back worse than before.
We're enjoying all the spinach for the next couple of weeks until the weather heats up and it goes to seed. The cool thing about cooler weather crops is you can plant another round in the fall!
