Melons!

My watermelon and cantaloupes are doing well.  I have around 10 watermelons growing and three or four cantaloupes.

It's Hot!

It has been very hot here in Bixby, Oklahoma!  It has been over 100 degrees for the last two weeks.  It never gets below 80 at night.  That makes the A/C work really hard and the electric bill go really high.  It is also very hard on the garden.  I have watered every day.  One thing about the SFG is that you really do need to keep it watered.  As you will see from some of the pictures, my tomato plant are looking a little dry.  That being said, I'm getting baskets of tomatoes every day.  My heirloom tomatoes don't grow as well, I get one or two to 20 of the regular tomatoes.  The taste is unbelievable!  I'm going to really work on them next year. Eggplants are still growing like crazy.  Peppers have slowed down.

Cantaloupes

Here are my first cantaloupe.  I grew these in a hose hammock about three feet off the ground.  Can't wait to eat them!  On another note, eggplants grow like crazy.  I have been trying to find ways to cook them.

JULY

Everything is growing great.  No bugs, no fertilizer just water.  I was a little bummed about my heirloom tomato.  It was larger than a softball and as you can see in the picture something went wrong.  Going to research what causes this.

Celebrity Tomaotes

Eggplants grow like crazy!

Fresh from the garden

Sunflowers

Trashed Heirloom Tomato

July Update

watermelon

Garden is doing great.  I've learned so much this season,  already making plans for next years garden.  It's wild seeing my cantaloupe growing three feet in the air.  I have harvested all my corn and  planted some watermelon in its place.

cantaloupe hanging with hose