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Don’t worry, you don’t have to act surprised. In fact, I suspect you were all expecting more garden photos today. That’s okay. I don’t mind being predictable. But, today I’ll be more positive. Though if you know of something I should be doing with these plants let me know. If the back of the seed packet doesn’t advise me of it I don’t know what I am supposed to do.

Above you’ll see that the Minnesota Midget Melons are going to town growing. The bed was amended with a fair bit of compost, but now that it is growing vigorously and blooming should I be fertilizing? As with the tomatoes do I need to be careful of nitrogen content of the fertilizer? Or should I just top dress with some more compost? Really, these questions apply to all of the photos found below as well.

Here are watermelon blossoms and a squash blossom. Can you tell I love the twice daily check ups on the garden? It is ever changing!

Something has caused the everbearing strawberry plants to go nuts now. Prior to this it was only the wild variety that has been sending out runners. I figured it was because they weren’t trying to flower and fruit like the everbearing. That said, one of the everbearing plants has nearly overnight had 6-8 blooms, set a fair number of berries and is sending out new runners every day! We haven’t done any post-planting fertilizing, just deep watering every 3-4 days with a soaker hose. But it sure is nice to see that those guys are settling in as much as the wild variety. I just hope they don’t choke out the wild ones! LOL!