Herb planter is finally looking useful. I have to thin the mint some more before it chokes out everything else, but no biggie.
My "red pot" tomatoes are totally loco. They're almost twice as high as the others, and I don't have cages for them yet! I had to rescue one after heavy rain as it had slumped over the edge of the pot, and I've added many stick supports, but these babies demand moooooore! No flowers on them yet though... all the smaller ones are slightly ahead in that regard. Apparently, the big guys can talk the talk but can they tomato the tomato?
Tomato planter has overtaken the x-treme pepper plant, and all are on the verge of flowering. Mike picked a bit of thyme and basil and they have gone nuts since then. Yay herbs! We'll likely have some major herb-drying to do this fall.
All the dwarf tomatoes are flowering, which means we'll have plenty of plum tomatoes in our salads this August. Maybe I'll make some salsas too, WHO KNOWS?
Pumpkins are doing so awesome! I've had two huge flowers on them (both male so far) and those insects better damn well be pollinating them! The squash haven't sent out any main runners yet, hopefully they get with the program soon.
A pumpkin!!! Well, a female flower about to open anyway. But the flower is totally preggo with pumpkin! I'm with ya' lady pumpkin, haaang in theeerrre!
Aaaannd I officially have THREE cucumbers growing on my little underdog cucumber plants! Whoop whoop!
The peas are in agony and I don't know how to fix them. They didn't like these planters or something. The beans have flowered though, so we'll likely get a few of those. It's a very sad planter situation. I blew it over here.
The cantaloupe was recently pummeled by a short burst of hail, and a lot of its tender leaves got torn, but it seems to have pulled through. It's even flowering, good sign, no?
The watermelon are definitely growing, but there's no sign of flowers yet. They seem healthy though, and if we have a warm September I might still get a couple little melons from them.
Our first wittle strawberry! The rain has helped a lot. On sunny days I just can't keep these planters moist. We've got some compost coming up soon, and hopefully it helps. Otherwise it may just be gimpy little berries for us this year.
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