Yep. Those smooth caterpillars that get in the ears. We've had to chop off big pieces, and have had ants get in after the caterpillar. That's a nasty mess.

Lost about 20 due to a rat or mouse I assume. Cheryl Crow needs to get to work on that.

3rd harvest this week. Its going to slow down which is good because the figs are getting ready pick. Peppers aren't coming in worth a [censored]. Squash got planted late but its coming along.

Shredded the corn rows and disced them in this afternoon. Planted back cantaloupes. I should be able to corner the cantaloupe market for a week or two in about 85 days.

Looks like lots of things being harvested! I've got peppers, squash, bell peppers, and picked my first pickling cucumbers today.

My tomatoes ain't doing nothing, no blooms or anything

My cukes were LOADED with blooms. Saw bees doing their thing every morning. Got sick last week and didn't go out to see what was going on and the dang aphids have just about wiped out my cukes! grrr.. Picked a nice batch of green beans and zuccini squash though. Bell and jalapenos look great, lots almost ready for picking. Dang tomatoe blooms having a hard time setting, some just fell off. Then, had a couple that were about as big as golf balls that ended up with bottom rot, I assume from all the rain. Tough sledding so far but I'm not surprised since I started so late. Hope to keep the 18 tomatoe plants alive thru summer and get a good fall crop. That's usually the way it works for me anyway, lol.

I've had lots of blossom end rot. I tried putting in a bunch of lime when I planted. It didn't help. It only happened to the Roma II variety. The Better Boys were doing great at 6' tall until they got too much rain. Now they have green shoulders and are cracking. Things have dried up a bit and they have quit. A bunch of the Roma plants turned purple then wilted and died.

My pea vines are absolutely loaded with small peas and blossoms. Going to have a bumper crop.

Hybrid corn did terrible . Stalks were about 1/2" diameter , 4' high and made one 6" ear apiece at the bottom . I delayed planting maters and peppers in the garden until the first week of May . The Early Girls and Better Boys didn't do well but the Celebrities and hot weather hybrids are finally starting to make . I should have a nice green tomato fry for the 4th .

The chilies in planters are kicking butt . I've got Cubanelles , Japs , Serranos , Pequins , Gold and Red Cayennes and some Habs that'll give you an out-of-body experience .

Wife just slid 7 quarts of spaghetti sauce into the pressure canner. That's a bunch of tomatoes cooked down.

And it's hot up in herruh.

Probably wouldn't hurt to do a couple thousand curls of those tomatoes. Nice harvest. I have that same pool.

What kind of peppers did you plant? My Mammoth and Mucho Nacho jalapeno plants are doing great. Producing large and many peppers.

In the last 2 days we picked 288 lbs of purple hull peas and 396 cantaloupes at my buddies place.
I picked 34 lbs of peas off one row in about 30 minutes. I think there were 65 rows.
Apparently the migrant pea pickers have found the Colorado marijuana patch more profitable and aren't coming back. Not sure how my buddy is going to get his peas picked.

From yesterday

Pulled this hollow onion out of the garden.

Yesterday's harvest... Figs, jalapeno, dill pickles, fig/jalapeno jelly, garden salsa...