Just buy your lettuce from the farmer’s market. It takes up way too much space unless you’re Tubebender, anyway, and insects hone in on it first.
Pole beans - Kentucky Wonder - going nuts. Bush Contender bean flushed, harvested, waiting for new flush.
I think I might have mentioned I made the mistake of accidentally planting African marigolds among the tomatoes. They’re as tall and half as wide as the tomatoes. The blooms are so huge and cheery, I can’t just snip them dead. Their roots exude chemicals that kill nematodes.
Recommend SugarCube personal cantaloupe (muskmelon, actually). Very enthusiastic, you can loop it back on itself until you have a coil of melon vine.
My neighbor just happened to give me a short, stunted, totally purple tomato plant for me to revive the day Prince died. Named the tomato Prince but now he’s big, green, producing heirloom San Marzano Roma tomatoes 8wks later.
Snipping long, beautiful, elegant Burgundy okra.. eggplant (Whopper) getting marauded by some invisible bug, but can’t spray as it’s next to a tangle of heavily fruiting Muncher cukes. Need ma’ bees. Heirloom yellow and white Patty-pan squash harvest underway. Cherokee Purple tomato re-blooming after the hot spike shut blooming down a month ago.
My mixed radish perimeter is taking all the insect damage: what we hire Trap Crops to do. Surprisingly, I’m still organic.
“My mixed radish perimeter is taking all the insect damage: what we hire Trap Crops to do.”
I’m doing that next year then! As well as planting marigolds and cilantro amongst the tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes. It’s probably too late for this year.