Gardening Highs and Lows

A few surprises in the garden this week. One bad, some good and one great!

Fruitful Changes

I don't want to get too excited in case I'm wrong, but I think some female flowers on the melon plants have finally been pollinated.

Where Are My Melons?

Don't the melon plants look fantastic? Now if I could just get some melons to go with them everything would be great! I guess my hand pollinating efforts have failed, I'll keep on trying though. Last year I got 3 melons out of 2 plants with no hand pollination. I thought I could easily do better this year since I had a better handle on how to grow these plants, but now I'm getting worried.

Vegetable Harvest Report 10 & Plant Report 05 2010

October 11-October 26:

Eggplant:  6.3 ounces

Hot Pepper:  1.5 ounces

Sweet Pepper:  13.7 ounces

Weight Total:  1 pound, 5.5 ounces

Vegetable Harvest Total:  60 pounds,  10.1 ounces

After I harvested the last of the hot peppers and eggplants I pulled the plants from their containers.  Now the only vegetables left in the garden are the sweet peppers, the cherry/regular tomatoes and the peas.  Surprisingly, my last 2 tomatoes are still on the plant, I thought for sure the squirrel would get them.  I wonder what he's up to, I haven't seen any evidence of him on the rooftop lately.

The lipstick pepper and the cherry tomato are still putting out flowers.  I've been pinching them off so that the plants focus their energy on maturing the existing fruit and not making new ones.  I still have a bunch of green peppers and cherry tomatoes waiting to be plucked, hopefully the fruit will change color before frost arrives.

The peas are 5 feet tall now, one plant tops the reed fence.  It better stop growing because it's got nowhere else to go!

There's powdery mildew at the base of the pea plants but I don't care, it's too late in the season to worry about it.  Baking soda is an option though if I wanted to treat it.

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