How do you kill a wasp nest?

Every experienced farm girl knows to check the house and surrounding areas for wasp nests in the spring, not in early summer after you just faced a swarm of them. I saw one, then a few days later I was in my backyard and was surrounded by 5 or 6. They seemed to be interested in the underside of the patio table. I take a look. There it is, an almost empty nest.

How do you kill a wasp nest? Too late in the day to go out and get spray. Not to worry, you can kill them with soapy water. Soapy water? Why would I buy spray, then? I tried some suggested home-made trap first,

That is an empty Gatorade bottle, cut off the top third and turn the top over so the narrow top spout is now inside the bottle, fill the bottle with soapy water and put something sweet (like honey) down in the spout. The idea is that the wasp will be lured into the trap, can't get out, and drowns. Here is a wikiHow version,

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Wasp-Trap

The trap must take more patience than I have. An hour later and the wasps are still crawling around the outside of my trap. The wasps are slowing down, which they do at night, so I filled a spray bottle and sprayed them with soapy water and watched them slowly die. Then I sprayed the nest and dislodged it, oops, more wasps, I sprayed them too. I have to say they were moving pretty slow, not flying at me, so it wasn't so scarey to spray them.

Now I know, check for wasp nests in spring and dislodge them before the wasps hatch, if you can't reach them, then they are probably not anywhere where they will hurt anyone, so leave them alone, they are good for the garden.

The sweet peas are about done. I harvested enough this year to actually cook some peas. It wasn't that I planted more, I only planted one more this year, but because I could plant them on time, they sprouted more peas. Once the sweet peas are done, I can rip out the plants and make some room for the cucumber and the beans.

Here are the bean plants,

The cucumber has flowers,

Take a look at the huge broccoli,

This is only a week after the picture I have up top. I did not mean to plant tomatoes and they are taking up more room than I planned, but still I am amazed at how I had tiny plants surrounded by dirt only a few weeks ago and now I am pretty much out of room. The other big leaf plant is the cauliflower, which is supposed to be difficult to grow, but I had another one that I had to pull out, not enough room. I'm having the same problem with the regular peas, two plants finally came up and I really only have room for one.

A few days after I took this I harvested my first hand full of raspberries,

Raspberries already? It is still June! I dare you to be unhappy picking raspberries.

The property manager called, seems the owner is coming to view his properties in the next few weeks. The property manager hasn't done one thing I asked him to in almost two years, now, quick, he wants to know if there are any issues he should deal with. There isn't much really, and my expectations of the property manger are nonexistent, but I have some of my own cleaning up to do so the owner can see I am a dream tenant and not think about raising my rent.