In August, a hot month, the rudbeckia (black-eyed susans) were in full bloom and in the rear beds they were joined by an explosion of heliopsis, which mostly overwhelmed their poorly cited foxgloves neighbors. These would later in the season , along with the guara, become covered in aphids and require hosing, cutting and eventually spraying with a "safe" neem oil solution that didn't seem to do much good. I will keep my eye out for some way to import more ladybugs next season I suppose.
Equally loving the heat, my crowded tomatoes completely overwhelmed all my peppers and threatened to shade out the cucumber plants as well. I let them go, as I could hardly keep up with the number of cucumbers from these two little plants. One I didn't get to until it was nearly 18 inches long. Not great eating, but fun to pick and give away as an oddity.
Equally loving the heat, my crowded tomatoes completely overwhelmed all my peppers and threatened to shade out the cucumber plants as well. I let them go, as I could hardly keep up with the number of cucumbers from these two little plants. One I didn't get to until it was nearly 18 inches long. Not great eating, but fun to pick and give away as an oddity.
