home
members
gardens
communities
topics
plants
weather
tagsI'm going to divide up my posts today by successes and problems.
The good news: I have some tomatoes, peppers, and melons thriving.
Thai pepper plant busting out with thai peppers. I also have a thriving thai basil bush, so I'd better start looking up some curry recipes!
Sugar Baby Watermelon growing happily. We have several melons on each plant.
Early Girl Tomatoes and their partly-successful bird deterrent. The birds are thirsty because of the drought, and our tomatoes are both a meal and a drink. 
We appear to have overcome most of our late season start issues, and it really looks like a garden now. The most successful tomatoes appear to be the Early Girls and the Juliets. We might be getting some Black Cherries any day now, and maybe some BHN 444s. Production is a lot lower than I expected, but with our early season woes, I suppose I'll take what I can get. Next summer will be much better!
I've included some other happy plant pictures in the gallery with this journal.
Responses
Re; Giant Marigold, are these the ones that get 4ft high? I planted these by accident one year. I wanted to companion plant marigolds with my tomatoes. I saw a seed packet with an illustration of flowers on it, its said marigold, I got it and didn't read any further.
I was semi suspicious when my seedling weren't showing signs of flower buds, but I went ahead and put them in the ground anyway.
My veggie bed kind of felt out of control with large tomato plants surrounded by large marigolds. :)
I'd like to plant them again sometime in their own bed/area, but they were just too much in the veggie bed.
All of your fruit is looking good too. Cantaloupe, yum!