Watermelons are springing up nicely, although their stems are still kind of wussy. I might still put them outside. Depends how they keep up over the next week or so.
I had to loosen the soil around the cantaloupe, it wasn't growing very well and I figured it might be choking due to the heavy topsoil we used (no sandy soil like the watermelons). Since then it's sprung up and looks a little happier.
Tomatoes looking happy enough. They'll need cages soon. Still wish I would have started them sooner. Next year: grow lamps!! Half of where they're growth is going is to thickening the stems, which should've happened a while ago. I'm also very impatient.
My favorite planter making me very happy (note how continuously robust my Terminator pepper plant looks. Only thing not started from seed and it's making me feel bad). We'll be moving both the big planters into a sunnier spot soon. Don't know if you can see, but they've all got a slight lean going on. They demand more sun, so I must comply lest a revolution begins.
The basil survived the frost and hail (uncovered!), but they look a bit worse for wear now. They haven't actually grown much, despite being alive. I'll try to loosen the soil but after that, I dunno.
The thyme took the hail and frost uncovered as well, and didn't seem to mind at all. As you can see, they're having the thyme of their lives! Eh? Ya?
Pumpkins are recovering happily, with the surviving leaves a bit haggard-looking but okay. I did a lot of pinching post-hail/frost (they were also uncovered), and they seem to be thanking me for it.
Had to pinch a lot off of the squash, but there's fresh growth coming up so I'm not too worried anymore. These plants have never been especially enthusiastic... not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'll wait a couple weeks and hopefully by then I'll have some nice fresh compost for them. If they don't like that then screw 'em. Or just watch them slowly grow and hope that they make some squashes.
Even have a few late-comers! Oh, hi beans. So happy you finally decided to join us. Please acquaint yourselves with the pumpkins and squash and I'll be around shortly to go over my expectations.
Dwarf tomatoes chugging along cutely. Lookit the wittle guys! Oooh soo woo wooo!!!
I've got ants in my plants, and it's making me want to dance to France. This was the first victim and I've been nursing it for a few weeks now. They moved into the other pots too, but I've been more diligent with moving them and spraying bug spray on the ground below them. Get outta my plants!!!
My "salad" container lost it's cucumber in the hail/frost. I had to pinch all of its leaves, but the stem still looks healthy and there's a tiny bud, so I'm kind of waiting to see if some new shoots come up. That would be awesome as my other cucumber plants are also a bit sickly looking.
Peas 'n' beans. I'm still not sure about the beans. I think they're tricking me into letting them stay by looking healthy, but I'd be surprised if they produced. Too crowded? Maybe. If excessive feeding doesn't get everything huge then I will have failed here.
Hanging strawberries and some wittle berry blossoms! I over-crowded these planters initially, and then could only pinch off the extra plants. I'm hoping that the left-over roots aren't sucking too much away from the remaining plants. I want strawberrieeees!
Did a bit of zucchini pinching too, and they seem okay. The little specks on them is this weird sticky sweet stuff that comes from somewhere in the tree. It gets all over the lawn, like, my hose will be all sticky from it. I have no idea what it is, but it seems harmless.
This is the healthiest cucumber plant left. There is one other that looks a bit worse, and the others are dead (except for the possible reviving of the salad planter one). I like to think of them as undead cucumbers. Little growing zombie plants. These side patches aren't doing so well due to their very bad placements (mostly shade). Next time it's all containers or middle-yard digging.
Yes, the radishes LOOK healthy, but I think the soil is lacking. Where there should be radishes there are only wispy roots. Maybe I need to wait longer (and I will), but I'm not holding my breath. Plus, the lettuce mix behind it is coming up pathetically, which makes me think that the soil is wrong. Oh well. We can have lots of great tomato salads.
I'm really happy with the tomatoes, but really disappointed with the cucumbers (WHY didn't cover them!?! IDIOT). The corn and sunflowers are officially being ignored. I mean, I'm watering and weeding them, but until I see some really lovely and miraculous improvement, I will no longer be wasting camera batteries on them.
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