I've actually had better luck spanking in the evening in the earlier part of spring. Mornings, the hotter it gets...

*thinking about making a call to TPS (Tomato Protective Services)*

Here's my update

First the bad news. The lower leaves of my yellow squash and butternut are starting to turn brown. Thoughts?

Also, I found a dern itty bitty green worm on the underside of my cuke leaves. I pinched him and I'm considering the Sevin dust....

Cantaloupe seems to be stuck in the two leaf phase.

On the positive side... The peas are producing like mad but for some reason they don't ever seem to make it all the way inside the house Ill be sure to plant more this fall and next year.

Roma II bush beans are about a foot tall and are flowering like mad.

Tomatoes and peppers are nice and green

I water by hand from a watering can using rain water. I suppose the leaves get splashed but so does everything else. Are squashes particularly sensitive to wet leaves?

If you're watering in the evening. Stop...At least until it gets above 95...It's like sending the plants to bed wet and they can't dry out, causing fungus...It looks like a lack of nitrogen...

+1

I got my lab report for the soil from the lab today. Pretty quick less than a week to do, probably because most have all ready done this earlier in the season. It was pretty much what I suspected. All the nutrients were high, expect for almost no nitrogen. The PH is high at 8.1 but I need to get it down to 7.-7.5

I hear what you're sayin about watering at night. Usually I water at about 530p because I don't have the time in the morning but I'll see what I can do.

Nitrogen huh... maybe I'll bury some more fish

I picked 14 red potatoes this morning

There is still one more red potato plant I need to pick, but it's still looking pretty strong so I will let it keep growing, and keep on watering it. Hopefully they'll get a little bigger.

Also, both of my squash plants now have a big yellow flower. Neat

You may need to get some paint brushes (like for painting a picture, not a wall) and take the pollen from the flower that's not attached to a squash and put it in the flower attached to a squash...

Congrats on the red potatoes, MSR...I know I was excited when I pulled some of the first onions this past weekend...

About 10 seconds per plant in the morning (early morning, like 5:00 a.m. is okay) will go a long way to sustain it, especially in the heat...

I have no squash yet. To be honest I thought the squash were dead, which is why I was surprised to see the flower. Part of the problem appears to be a lack of nitrogen, which is why I'm going to get some fish emulsion today.

This is my first year to have a garden. Everything seems to be doing good best I can tell. The problem I am having is my some of my tomatoes (still green) have a brown hole. I looked it up on the internet and it says it is possibly a caterpillar, but I haven't found how to treat it. Any suggestions? I haven't actually seen them though, just what I read it might be?