Friday, June 23, 2017


I have fruit on my tomatillos, romas, cherry tomatoes, and my Holy Mole peppers.  I also have flowers on all of the pepper plants, one cucumber plant and my Barq summer squash and only male flowers on my pumpkins.


Pumpkin Blossom

Another pumpkin blossom

Some of these tomato blossoms are huge

Tomato Blossoms
Tomatillo Blossoms




















The weather has been over 100 degrees three times at my house this month.  Most of the time the temperatures have been in the 90's.  I see lots of flowers, so I'm not worried about production. 

My ornamental peppers are looking cute with their little peppers jutting upwards.  So far they are small and only green.  I'll have to take a pic when they are in their full color glory.

Friday, June 16, 2017



We have had one day of 100+ degree weather so far this month.  Thankfully it was only one.  Usually, where I live, it doesn't hit 100 until the end of July to early August.  However, there are more hot temperatures on the horizon next week with the possibility of more 100 degree days.  (SIGH).  The problem with high temperatures so soon, is that the plants are not encouraged to set fruit when it is hot.  I checked my plants today, and many already have lots of blossoms on them, but sadly some do not have any. 


The four tomato plants I thought I lost in the snow storm, well it turns out I only lost one of them.  The three survivors are way behind in development than the other tomato plants, but they hung in there.  I was going to rip them out and put in some store-bought plants, but I thought I would just see how they did.  Below is a picture of them.  They are tiny plants 



(the three that survived the snow)

                                       (here are the sizes of the others)

I guess in this case, size does matter.  If the ones exposed to the snow were my only tomato plants, then ripping them out and planting new ones, would have been been the best idea.  I doubt the survivors will produce much.  By the time they are ready to flower, we will be in the middle of the high heat summer.  


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My zucchini did come up, but not the Papaya Pear.  All of my pumpkins sprouted except for Hooligan.  My cucumbers are present and accounted for.  


Here is the mound of my Jack O'Lanterns


The different types of pumpkins, squash, and cucumbers are all about the same size as the above picture.