Not sure what I'm growing!

When I planted my garden, I picked up four plants in the cucurbit family: a zucchini, a summer squash, a cucumber, and what I thought was a cantaloupe.   Now I’m not so sure – there are strange melon-like fruits growing from one of the remaining plants (both the zucchini and summer squash met an untimely end), but these fruits do not look like cantaloupe to me…they look more like watermelon.  Of course, having never grown either type of melon, I couldn’t tell you for sure what they look like as ‘toddlers’.  I’m tempted to take one inside and cut it open – that would solve things quickly enough; however my dear sweet husband insists that I just be patient and wait until the melons are full-grown.  Grrrr….

I’ll have to post some photos of the mystery melons, if it ever stops raining…

 

 

wilted

As in both my poor zucchini plants and my spirits.  :(  I looked out the window today and almost all the leaves on my zucchini plant had fallen over.  It looked like it hadn't been watered in days, but we've had nothing but rain this week, so I know that is not the case.  A quick internet search has lead me to suspect some sort of squash borer or other pest.  I'm not sure if I can do anything to save them or if I should just give up and yank the whole thing out of the ground.  So sad - I hadn't quite had my fill of zucchini yet...

They've got us surrounded!

The tomatoes, that is.  They’re everywhere!  I dropped off a whole sack of them with ML last night and our fruit bowl is filled to the brim still.  And for every red tomato I pull off the vine, three green ones take its place…  Salsa time, here we come!

On the other side of the garden (all 4 feet of it) I have a new invader.  A small grayish bug which my visiting mother insists is another kind of squash beetle.  Great – just what I need!  The nasty chemical spray I tried earlier in the season has done no good…might have to try something else…

I pulled up a couple of onions last night, too – they are very small, but I’m not sure how big they were going to get anyway – the tops had fallen over and wilted, which I read was a sign of the onions being ready for harvest.  I pulled 3, but I’m planning on leaving the rest in the ground for a while to see what happens…