Beginner Gardening: Urban Gardening - Spread the Word, 1 by stephanietx

stephanietx wrote:
My bush beans seem to be bearing the most stress from all this hot weather. Everything looks so pathetic in the heat of the day, but they perk back up in the early evening. The watermelon is growing like crazy, but not setting fruit yet. I see lots of little girls, but nothing's gotten pollinated yet. The cantaloupes have started setting fruit. I've got one mound that has 3 melons on it. The other mound, which gets more shade, hasn't set fruit yet, but it's growing like crazy and is covered with flowers. I did plant my bell peppers and jalapenos behind the taller stuff this year in hopes of avoiding so much sunscald on them. They seem to be doing great, but not setting fruit yet either. It went from cold to hot and skipped the nice gradual warm up we normally get.

Here's the smallest cantaloupe.