Susan, your cucumbers look great and extra on sale veggie plants are a good thing!

My cucumbers have finially gotten going growing well, they seemed to have a slow start this spring. I think they wanted it to be warmer.

I was out watering this morning. The yard long beans are up about 8-9" and they look good. Another couple inches and they will hit the fence I planted them by. The same person who sent me the bean seeds sent me some cantaloupe and cucumber seeds to try and I planted them the same day. Not one sign of any of them. Hmmm. I have not given up hope yet though. I didn't plant all of the seeds she sent, so if nothing at all comes up, I will try to start some in 6 packs instead of directly in the ground.

I noticed I have volunteer tomatoes coming up everywhere. I usually plant all most all heirlooms. I wonder if I should let the volunteers grow, if they will come true, or crossed and be interesting?

Juli, if you have room let at least some of the volunteer tomatoes grow. I bet they end up tasting good!

My yard long beans are up and growing nicely also. Not climbing yet but they soon will. Wonder why your cukes and melons are not up yet?

Eat your heart out all you pea pod lovers. My snowpea jungle!


And I wish these green tomatoes would hurry up and start to get red already.

Your tomatoes are doing great. I only have a couple pea sized ones.

Thanks Susan. I do know the tomatoes are doing well, I am just impatient for my first red ones as I want to eat them. When I look at the tomato plants closely I see lots of very small just started fruits and bigger ones. So it will come. I just need to have patience.

I have one with a tinge of pink! So excited, but will soon have them coming out the ears.

Hurray Arlene. Nothing beats home grown tomatoes!

I can almost taste it already! July 13 our gardening club will host a tomato tasting at the farmers market I attend. We will be donating lots of tomatoes for that. We have always done tomato tasting at our booth and it is a huge hit. (Helps sell a lot of tomatoes that way too!)

Oh I wish I could go to your tomato tasting! Sounds like a winner!

Besides my tomatoes I am excited about my eggplants flowering. Before this year I didn't even know there was anything other than the deep purple ones commonly seen at the local grocery. But I have some of the exotic kinds also and want those all to grow fruit quickly too.

And they're kind of like zucchini, once they start, you'll have them coming out your ears!

Did I tell you I cheated and picked up two plants at Wal-Mart because mine were only about an inch tall? They're growing a lot but the ones I bought ate full of blossoms too. Next year I may just buy all of my plants because they are really slow starters.

I am happy that I bought mine as plants. These darn things (eggplants) grow slowly so they would have to be started in January in the middle of winter! No way for me. They have a great selection of all sorts of eggplants at the nurseries here. I will just buy them each year.

Unless you need a lot of plants because you do market, I can't see why you need to bother starting them as seeds, just buy afew plants.

I have a neighbor and friend that lives next door and she is impatiently waiting for eggplant, zucchini and tomatoes. So both of us are impatient.

Seems like we're always waiting on something!

Naw, I don't need a lot of plants for market, somehow just have in my mind to start everything from seeds. I forget I can just buy the plants. Funny how I don't have that problem with flowers though!

Sometimes It is just easier to buy the darn plants!

I did give my neighbor 3 zucchini one time but that is hardly anything for her family of five. But at least I have been eating zucchini and summer squash myself. But the plants are not having fruit now, need to set off another round of blossoms. But the eggplants she noticed as soon as I planted them and told me eggplant is her favorite veggie. So I better have lots of eggplant and more zucchini. Plus everyone wants the home grown tomatoes, including me!

The zucchini really have done well for me up to this point. Must be gearing up for another round of flowers and fruit! First pic are the green zucchini's and the second the yellow ones.


This is one of the Cavilli green zucs that I started late from seed.


And here is the Trivili spagetti squash also from seed.


I have been having blooms on my Classic Purple eggplants but today is the first bloom on any of the others. This is my white eggplant and has it's first flower today.


And another of the fancy eggplants.


The driveway "farm"

No pictures yet, but I have baby fruits on my Astia Zucchini ... and I have my squash bug drowning bucket up and working.
Long beans are sending out climbing tendrils, and the *naked* tomato plants don't look bare anymore. I'd taken all leaves off from the ground up until the first bloom cluster, and they're setting fruit already. This is probably the earliest I've ever seen fruit-set on seed started indeterminate plants, so I'm thinking that it may have been an okay thing to do.
Baby bean plants haven't been eaten yet.

My volunteer tomatoes usually end up being Romas since they're the ones that overproduce the most. It would be neat to see what other crosses show up -I just doubt our season would be long enough though. , keep a few if you can.

Won't be long now!

I never heard of taking all the leaves off. Is that what you meant by pruning? I assumed you meant taking the suckers off.

I don't usually have any luck with volunteer tomatoes and I don't know why because we grow mostly heirlooms. Oh well, I have plenty without.

Rita, your plants look really good. With the later squash you'll be sure to have continuous fruit.

Went to Lowe's tonight and got 25 t-posts and twine so I can weave my pepper plants tomorrow! (after I weed!) I have three 50' rows and another 25' or so of a double row. Some of the Gypsy peppers are turning pale yellow so it's won't be long until they turn red! I have a pepper in the greenhouse, Frank is the variety, a red one, that is starting to turn red.

We've been picking lots of cucumbers as well. DH picked the plants in the greenhouse this morning but I found about 5 that he missed! They are growing vertical ans sometimes they are tricky to find! Thankfully none of them were swollen so big with seeds. I like them nice and slim.

Hurray Chelle. Hurray for baby zucchini and newly set tomato fruits!

Arlene, cucumber harvest sounds awesome. And I think doing the Florida weave on the pepper plants is a great idea.

Yesterday I found lots and lots of baby, really baby, cukes on my cucumbers. So they are setting fruit which is very good.

Tomatoes growing like crazy.