Cantaloupes, Cantaloupes, Cantaloupes.

The garden continues to grow each day. Today, I got 6 more squash, a zucchini, a tomato and two very small peppers from the garden.


The squash and zucchini are still taking over the whole place, with the cantaloupe coming in a very close second. I was amazed today. I found a small cantaloupe about the size of a ping pong ball. Then as I looked closer, I found another. Then another, until I counted about 7 cantaloupes in various sizes. I don't know what we're going to do with so many cantaloupes. People are afraid when they see me coming now because they think I'm going to give them more squash. I think I might run out of friends before I run out of squash.

The watermelon plant is really spreading out and the corn is maturing. I hope we don't get the watermelon at the same time as we get the cantaloupe. Or as many watermelons. We'll be over our heads in melons. The cauliflower doesn't look so great, but perhaps that will come into it's own in the fall. Two of the three head lettuce plants look pretty good but the third one looks kind of poor. Lots of tomatoes on the vines, but they seem to ripening one at a time. Hopefully, more will ripen soon. Some of the green ones are getting fairly large. That's when they're the best---nice and big and red.

I still keep a close watch on the eggplants. I haven't seen any blossoms on the ground so perhaps the lime I put on them helped. Of course, our old friend, the Colorado Potato Beetle is still around. I took a jar of water and dish detergent down there today and knocked the two I saw into the jar. I know that's what the man next to us does and he had a chewed up plant but it had a large eggplant on it.

Mary had sent me an email telling me I probably wouldn't have much to harvest today. She was really surprised when I told her what I found there. There's a tomato that should be ripe either tomorrow or Thursday, so I told Mary to take it. I hope she does.

I don't go back until Saturday. I wonder what treasures I find then!!!!