This is an overview photo of the garden plot taken on the morning of 6/22/13.

This photo was taken on 6/22/13. From right to left there are zinnias, sunflowers, garlic, tomatoes, and peppers.

This photo was taken on 6/22/13. On the left there are onions. Next to the onions are some marigolds and large weeds that look similar to marigolds. In the middle there is the oscillating sprinkler doing its job. Around the sprinkler are a variety of tomato and pepper plants. The tomato plants have stakes. On the right there are garlic plants with a few purple blooms.

This photo was taken on 6/22/13. From left to right there are potato plants, watermelon plants, small tomato plants, and onions.

This photo was taken on 6/22/13. From left to right there is a zucchini plant in the front and pumpkin plants in the back. There are cantaloupe plants in the front and carrots in the back. There are nasturtiums in the front and beets in the back. There are cucumbers between the carrots and the beets. There are potatoes on the right. George's corn is coming up the in plot beyond mine.

Here is an overview view of the garden plot. My neighboring gardener, George, and his red truck are in the background.

To the right of the tomato plants there is a row of garlic. The garlic has not fully recovered from being transplanted. To the right of the garlic are sunflower plants. To the right of the sunflower plants are zinnias.

To the right of the onions are various tomato and pepper plants.

Here you see the potato plants on the left (Yukon gold in the front and red Pontiac potatoes in the back). The next row includes 6 mounds of watermelon plants. Between the potatoes and watermelon plants is a pile of extra dirt. A friend who is moving to Florida had extra dirt after touching up her yard. Her kind real-estate agent brought the dirt over to my garden last Saturday so that I could hill up my potato plants. To the right of the watermelon plants is a row of tomato plants (mountain gold tomato plants in the front and sweet 100 cherry tomato plants in the back). On the right are the onion plants.

On the left (from near to far) are 1 mound of zucchini, 1 mound of yellow squash, and 2 mounds of pumpkins. The next row over are 3 mounds of cantaloupe plants in the front and carrots in the back. The next row are nasturtiums in the front and beets in the back. On the right of this photo are the potato plants. Beyond my garden you can see George's rows of corn starting to come up.

I created mounds for 6 watermelon plants. I planted 2 more pumpkin plants in the place of the butternut squash plants that shriveled. I mulched around onions, around part of garlic, and over some weeds. My neighboring gardener, George, sprayed the potatoes with Sevin for me and offered me some of his Kale.

Today I purchased a 6-pack of sweet 100 cherry tomatoes and a 6-pack of mountain gold tomatoes and 4 single superstar cantaloupe plants from Bowmans ($7.30). I also purchased a 6-pack of sugar baby watermelon plants from Barracks ($3.45). I used 2 bags of topsoil to create hills for the cantaloupe plants. I used 4 pages of topsoil to hill Yukon gold potatoes. I also sprayed for potato beetles.

The potato beetles are thriving despite the Sevin on Monday. Yesterday (Friday), I spent about an hour picking beetles of the potatoes both before work and in the evening. I picked them off the plants again this morning. Yesterday I bought 16 oz of Bonide Colorado Potato Beetle Beater for organic gardening. I will add 3 tsp to a 32oz spray bottle and apply weekly.

Last Saturday (May 25th) I planted yellow squash, butternut squash, and pumpkin plants. I weeded around potatoes. I also started marigold seeds indoors. Bridget came to see the garden. We walked to and from the park from my home. On Memorial Day (May 27th) I weeded and mulched around the onions, I mulched a couple of the weedy paths, I started hilling up the potatoes using mulch. I noticed a few Colorado potato beetles on the potatoes. My garden neighbor, George, spray my potatoes with Sevin at my request. From May 28th though May 31st I went to the garden plot each morning to water. We hit 90 degrees every day this week. I can see many of the seeds emerging including the carrots, beets, nasturtiums, sunflowers, and zinnias. I don't recognize the marigolds so I'm not weeding that area. Beth and I picked 3 onions from the garden on Thursday morning (May 30th) Glenda came to see the garden on Thursday evening.