Saturday, July 2, 1977

Noted first Japanese beetles on perennial sunflowers [J. artichoke?], which they don't eat! Watered VF tomatoes and new beets in the creek garden and corn, beans, tomatoes and perennial sunflowers in the slope garden. 18 eggs tyoday.

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Betty had a urinal infection for about a week, starting on June 25. She took 12000 mg or more of vitamin C, and a week later on July 2 there was a big improvement- the first time in the 5 or 6 times that this infection was had that she didn't go to a doctor to get a powerful antibiotic.

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Watered yellow tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and cauliflower in the creek garden and sweet potatoes and melons in the lope garden. Hauled in 4 large WB of hay from the flood plain. It's very warm now and the field corn's leaves are folded. I also watered carrots, beans and lima beans in the slope garden. 19 eggs today.

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