That. Is. Awesome. It' doesn't even look like a drought has been present in your little jungle. I'm jealous (but not armed with it)!!

Good for you.

Fantastic garden, James! I am growing hungry just looking at it. My tomatos are starting to come back a bit, too. I have flowers on all of them, and fruit is beginning to show.

Beautiful!

Susan

James, your video was great. Its always inspiring to see how others are doing. Keep up the good work.

Tracey

James, your video was great. Its always inspiring to see how others are doing. Keep up the good work.

Tracey

James, you have a very nice garden and thanks for sharing you video. I did notice that you seem to be very low on you grasshopper supply, if you will send me you address I will send you a couple of shoe boxes full.

My melons and sweet potatoes are doing like yours, they want to run everywhere.

Larry

Thanks for the comments. I went extra heavy on the mulch this year, which helped keep soil moisture stable during the worst heat. I also used shade cloth for the tomatoes and other sensitive plants to limit sun scald.

Thankfully bugs haven't been a big problem this year, although I had some squash plants succumb to vine borers early on. I've only seen one grasshopper in the garden all summer!

It's pretty common to flush a flock of birds out of the garden whenever I go back there. I see the occasional pecked fruit, but I suspect they have played a big role in keeping the bug population in check.

James, I just wanted to show you are not the only one with aggressive plants. yours are orderly, mine are just wild, much like kudzu and. I will link a picture to show how my sweet potatoes have attached my peppers and are overgrowing them, we are forecasted rain in a few days and the last time that happened I had a lot of broken plants because they could not support the weight of the wind and rain and sweet potato plants. I hope to get to trim the vines this morning and maybe tie up some pepper plants

Larry

It's pretty amazing how sweet potatoes can spread out. The last couple of years I've grown Cordner's Red, a compact bush type sweet potato I bought from Duck Creek farms. I wouldn't say they were all that "compact" but they didn't take over the garden. This year, I just bought a sweet potato from the grocery store (no idea the variety) and grew my own slips. And it's definitely NOT a compact plant!!!

I have one row of Puerto Rico bush and one row Centennial in this garden. I am not sure that the Centennial did not smother everything else out. I have Beauregard and Georgia Jet in my other bed, they seem to be a little more behaved.

Larry

looks great. i couldnt keep a plant alive this year