Garden Update

It is HOT outside, and the garden is definitely feeling it!  Our squash and zucchini plants have pretty much died off.  I'm not sure what happened to them exactly.  Our yellow golden egg squash was starting to get green and splotchy.  After reading some gardening forums, I couldn't figure out if it was cross pollination because I planted the zucchini so close, or if the plant got a disease. Either way, the squash plants pretty much died off, so I pulled them out.  I was thinking the zucchini was done too, but there are some new ones growing so I am going to leave it a bit longer and see what happens.  The tomatoes plants are still producing pretty good.  We are not getting what we used to off of them, but still getting quite a few each day, more than we can eat for sure.  Hailey loves taking them to people in the neighborhood! 

 One of our poor squash plants.  The leaves literally turned

this way over night!  Hopefully our next squash plants 

last a bit longer than these ones did.

 

 What's left of the zucchini plants.  We will see if they

keep producing, but I am doubtful.  

 The corn on the left was planted a few weeks before the corn

on the right.  For some reason, it is dying.  It's had plenty of

water, so I'm not sure what went wrong.  So far the corn on the

right is doing ok.  We do have some actual corn growing and I

am keeping my fingers crossed that the worms have not made

their homes inside of it like last year....ewwww.

 Our tomato jungle!  Next year I will not plant them this close

together.  Even though we are getting tons of tomatoes, the

leaves are getting gross and I know that there is not

enough air circulation between the plants.  We were having an

issue with tomato beetles, but after spraying once, they haven't

been seen since.  Something is still eating the leaves though,

I'm thinking it is aphids. 

 Still getting lots of tomato clusters like this one.  We have to pick

them as soon as they start turning orange or else the birds

will snatch them up.  We have found quite a few half eaten

tomatoes...thanks birds!!

We had two of the most awesome cherry tomatoe

plants ever!  We literally picked hundreds off each

one.  They are starting to get dried, crunchy leaves.  I

probably should move them to shade partially or 

get some shade covers for them before they die.

We are trying watermelon and pumpkin this year.  This is the start

of a watermelon plant.  The girls were SO excited when we planted these.

I have heard that they are both hard to grow, and prone to disease, so

we will see if we get any pumpkins or watermelons out of them.