I'm late to the party, but I will tell you about my garden. Last year the bottom bloom rot was so bad in our tomatoes, we decided not to plant any this year. [Margie changed my mind later] We started off with 30 pepper plants. 4 sweet banana, 2 Habanero, 2 Marconi, 3 jumbo/mammoth jalapeno, the rest regular jalapeno.
Then I planted 7 hills of banana cantaloupe. A week later, I added 7 hills each of two kinds of melon seeds from my freezer. One was labeled 'long green good', the other 'icebox.' A few days after that, put in 12 hills of cukes and 8 tomato plants. Then I took down my fence and tilled up more ground. I planted four rows of melons with 18 hills in each row. I did the 'long green good', 'icebox', 'yellow meat', and some that wasn't labeled, but looked like Crimson Sweet seeds to me. Of the newer melons, the ice box and long green good have put on the most melons so far. Some of the ice box are almost as big as the first ones I planted. We had 18 days of rain, and that, along with the heat is tuning my cukes yellow. They are on soaker hoses, which I just turned back on day before yesterday. I do give them blue juice twice a week, but they are not getting any better. I'm afraid the cukes will all be gone before the tomatoes get ripe. So much for a salad.
We are making a plastic shopping bag of peppers everyday. We picked the first cukes a couple of weeks ago, and the first cantaloupe yesterday. There is a couple of tomatoes that are starting to turn. As you can see from the pictures, everything is too close together. But Margie kept adding to what she wanted. Next year I will till up on the other side of the water line so I can stretch out a little.
1. The whole garden. 2. Banana cantaloupe, long green good and icebox. 3. Some people do square foot gardening. It's so crowded in my garden, it's cubic foot gardening. This melon is growing on the fence. 4. Yesterday's peppers. 5. Banana cantaloupe.
