Electric Theatre Radio Hour featuring G.Lee:

Brenda practices what she preaches, and here she is just a week ago with just a portion of the tomatoes she's grown in her backyard garden. Plenty of pests, but no pesticides. Every morning she gets up early -religiously - and goes out to tend her "babies". She has discovered a LOT of information about the most common insects that invade and demolish the tomatoes.  The tomato hornworm is the worst, but she carefully picks them off and takes them to an undisclosed location to let them fend for themselves at someone else's expense.

She is also growing cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelons and beets.  Unfortunately, the lack of rain has not been kind to the other vegetables, but she's staying on top of that too and hoping for the best.  Of course, the watermelon vines are rapidly taking over the backyard, and they are displaying scores of blossoms, so we shall see.

She'll be offering tips based on her own hard-won experience, so stay tuned to Food! Glorious Food!, home of all things edible.