Our very first tomato, on the bush goliath, is starting to turn. It’s been 5 and a half-ish weeks since the fruit first formed.

We pulled up most of the sad tomatoes and the watermelons, which were showing absolutely no signs of new growth. The yellow summer squash, after each deciding to send out a single, pointless flower, have now, happily, turned to sending out new leaves, which are all still small but a much healthier shade of green, and more encouraging than most anything else that we’ve started from seed. I’m hypothesizing that the larger pots, put in more shaded areas, don’t get as hot as the first pots that we transplanted to.

Our second round of seedlings, which we’ve been keeping inside longer in at attempt to protect them from the mean outside world, have what are probably fungus gnats. I’m balking at paying ~ $12 (half of that is shipping) for a half dozen pieces of sticky yellow paper to catch them, but if the local garden center doesn’t carry it, I guess that’s what we’ll be doing. Making sure the soil dries out between watering is supposed to ensure the larva can’t survive, as well.

We bought a brown turkey fig at the farmer’s market this weekend. It has some leaf rust, which looks like is controlled with copper spray. From the pictures I’ve seen, they can bear fruit while still reasonably small.