Rita, your seedlings look good. I think there is quite a few of the beets. Tomatoes look great. It's amazing all those blossoms.

I think the cukes and melon just need some good HOT weather!

It is funny but the potted melons on the driveway are growing like crazy.

Fantastic Arlene! I sure wish I had big green tomatoes like that!

This one is Big Beef and I have been suckering the plant. Don't know if that helps or not?

Your Sweet Million will be catching up soon! Before we know it we'll be inundated with tomatoes

Well, I love tomatoes so I can't wait.

Me too. One year I ate so many I broke out in a rash from all the acid, but it was worth it!

Nothing going on in my veggie garden today except a drenching rain. I tried to go outside this morning and pollinate the zucchini but it was impossible. The inside of the flowers were all holding water like they were a cup. I tried but there was no pollin what with it being drenching in water. Really a shame as I have three female flowers today that now will not set fruit because they weren't fertilized.

And I have found that I just LOVE home grown zucchini and want more fruit to set. The store bought stuff is aweful in compairison to my home grown fresh and tender yummies.

Last year I bought these really nice pots at Home Depot very cheaply. This year I went back and they didn't have them or anything like them. Only self watering pots. I can't use a self watering pot outside and besides the feature costs extra. So I need similiar pots. I search on line but not at any other Home Depots, nor Lowes nor Walmart. So finially I look at Amazon and found some perfect ones. They call them 16 inch pots but they are 17 1/2 inches accross the top. I measured my old ones. The new ones are the same, they just arrived by UPS. I have 3. So I just went back to Amazon and ordered 3 more of the same pots. I think they will get filled with some sort of squash.

Greenhouse Megastore always has a wide variety ... but you have to pay shipping.

http://www.greenhousemegastore...

Nothing big enough in the colored pots. And The black pots seem flimsey from the customer reviews. Great prices though, even with shipping.

Did you try the Dollar Store?

Sorry!

Some day I might buy a roll of plastic contact paper to pretty up some big pots and 5 gallon buckets ... if I run out of other things to do!

Small pots easily found. But I need big pots and those are hard to find.

Yeah, and expensive. Especially if you don't like industrial strength 4-gallon deli buckets.

I used to have STACKS of those, then I had to move several times.

Greens, broccoli and beets are growing like mad here right now, and the last of my planted (summer) squash seeds have sprouted. Time to get the pumpkins going.

I'm enjoying some success over the rabbits this year, so I may try some bush beans after all.


Rita, next time you're looking for containers you might try those big tubs with the rope handles. Drill out some holes and you've got 32 gallons (I think it is) of growing capacity.

Humm, that is an interesting idea. I never thought of it.

Beans are great, I say you plant some beans!

I know, but it's awfully annoying to manage to save baby plants (if you can ), nurture them for months, and then have the bunnies eat all the beans! And they don't even eat all of each one...just enough to make it a worthless task to pick any.

I bought stuff to put up electric fence, but I haven't gotten to it yet. That'll be a day-long job, I think. I've first to figure out how to keep grass, bushes, etc. from growing up under/against it and shorting it out. I have to be very careful of Roundup usage...if it travels it'll enter the lake's water supply. I usually only use it on poison ivy.

Yes, if bunnies are a problem you need a rabbit fence. Electric or otherwise.

Right now I had both white seeded and red seeded asparagus yard long beans plus Tenderette bush beans growing. I have seeds for lots more trypes of beans. I have yellow bush beans and I have french fillet beans. Those are green and also a bush variety. But I have those purple podded french fillet pole beans which are my first choice for trying next. Oh yes, I have Black Seeded Blue Lake pole beans seeds also.