Okay, I've finally charted out all my tomatoes; so, we'll know which ones survived and which ones didn't. [This has been updated multiple times since the initial post with more recent data.]

West-ish plot (technically still SW)
Row 1 (northmost row)
Napoli (C); transplanted on 29 May (Eastmost item)
5CGI_B (Galapagos Island, descended from a 5-chamber fruit set in 2019, plant A grown in 2020 but no 5-chamber fruits; this is the transplant Galapagos Island, this year)
empty
empty (Westmost item)

Row 2
Napoli (C0); transplanted on 29 May
v21_A (RL volunteer)
Amana Orange (B); This is the one that was direct-seeded under a jug.)
empty

Row 3
Nax_A F1—formerly referred to as Napoli (C1); transplanted on 29 May; this turned out to be a new cross, with roundish ribbed fruit; the father is probably the Purple Calabash cross F1 from last year, but possibly Purple Calabash or Red Calabash. It set its first two fruits by 28 June. Named Nax_A on 29 June.
Black Cherry (B)
empty
empty

Row 4 (southmost row of this plot)
Black Bear (B)
v21_A0 (RL volunteer)
v21_A1 (RL volunteer--was SunGold F1)


Main plot (SW-ish)

Row 1
Aunt Ginny's Purple (A)
v21_A2 (RL Volunteer)
Picnic_B F4 (renamed from Picnic_2)
Marion (C)
Cold Black Brandy (B)
Matt's Hornet (A)
SunDolce F2 (A)
Empty (was Cherokee Yellow Perfection Peach—B)
SunDolce F2 (A0)

Row 2
Snacker_B: was v21_A3 (PL volunteer--probably Medovaya Kaplya cross F3)
v21_A4 (RL volunteer)
Stick (B)
Stick (B0)
Stick (B1)
SunGarnet F2 (A)

Row 3
empty (was v21_A5, a PL volunteer, but the plant looked diseased or some such, and I removed it before any fruit ripened)
Snacker_B0: was v21_A6 (PL volunteer; probably a Medovaya Kaplya cross F3; produces big roundish yellow cherry tomatoes)
Black Beauty (A)
Stick (B2)
Cosmic Eclipse (B)
empty
SunCitron F2 (A)
empty

Row 4
Pearler_A F2 (Napoli cross A F2)
Frittata Kitchen (B)
v21_A7 (PL Volunteer)
Amana Orange (B0)
Stick (B3)
SunLemon F2 (A)
empty

Row 5
Pearler_A0 F2 (Napoli cross A F2--this is the one that got severed and regrew)
v21_A8 (RL volunteer)
v21_A9 (RL volunteer)
wbv21_A (Wonderberry volunteer)
v21_A10 (RL volunteer)
v21_A11 (RL volunteer)

Row 6
Pearler_A1 F2 (Napoli cross A F2)
v21_A12 (RL volunteer)
v21_A13 (RL volunteer)
v21_A14 (RL volunteer; probably Purple Calabash; has a wire cage)
v21_A15 (RL volunteer)
empty

Row 7
Pearler_A2 F2 (Napoli cross A F2)
Bash_A F2--my Purple Calabash cross F2 (B); a possible father of the cross is Costoluto Genovese; named Bash_A on 29 June.
Stick (B4), and Stick (B5)
v21_A16 (RL volunteer)
v21_A17 (PL volunteer)
Snacker_B1: was v21_A18 (Transplanted PL volunteer--probably a Medovaya Kaplya cross F3)

Row 8
Pearler_A3 F2 (Napoli cross A F2)
Frittata Kitchen (B0)
v21_A19 (RL volunteer)
Wm21_A (from a Weeks NC Giant cross watermelon grown in 2020, which fruit I noted was tasty)
v21_A20 (RL volunteer)
empty
empty

Row 9
Pearler_A4 F2 (Napoli cross A F2)
Costoluto Florentino (A)
Stick (B6)
v21_A21 (RL volunteer)
SunPeach F2 (A)
Chocolate Chestnut (B)
empty

Row 10
wbv21_A0 (transplanted Wonderberry volunteer)
wbv21_A1 (transplanted Wonderberry volunteer)
wbv21_A2 (transplanted Wonderberry volunteer)
wbv21_A3 (transplanted Wonderberry volunteer)
v21_A22 (PL volunteer)
Picnic_B0 F4 (renamed from Picnic_2)
empty
empty

Row 11
Sprite (B); transplanted on 29 May


SE plot
Row 1
Wm21_A0 (Watermelon good plant black seeds—the spot initially had Napoli, 2020 tomato; transplanted on 29 May)
Napoli (B0; B was the non-crossed plant or plants I grew in 2020)
Napoli (B1)
Napoli (C2; transplanted on 29 May, and v21_A23 (PL volunteer; probably a Brandy Boy double cross; if so, the mother was RL, and its was PL)
Napoli (C3)
Morsel_A (formerly Napoli (C4), but found it was a cross; this is the fourth Napoli cross I've found)
empty
empty

Row 2
empty
Wm21_A1 (WNCG cross #1; tasty winter 24 Aug 2020)
West India burr gherkin; transplanted on 19 Jun
West India burr gherkin; transplanted on 19 Jun
West India burr gherkin; transplanted on 19 Jun
West India burr gherkin; transplanted on 29 May
v21_A24 (RL volunteer--Galapagos Island; this is the oldest volunteer, this year)
empty

Row 3
Clad_A F2 (Napoli cross B F2)
BSX (B)
BSX (B0)
BSX (B1)
Amana Orange (B1)
SunChocola F3 (B)
Purple Russian (A)
empty

Row 4
Isis Candy (B)

Row 5
Egg Yolk (B)
empty
Mexican Yellow cross F3 (C0)
Mexican Yellow (B0)
Garden Leader Monster (B)
Japanese Black Trifele (B); transplanted from where Terhune is on 29 May

Row 6
Wm21_A2 (WNCG cross #1 12 Aug)
Clad_A0 F2 (Napoli cross B F2)
Dinner Plate (A)
Church (A)
Insurance_B F4 (renamed from Insurance_2—Mexican Yellow cross F4, D; likewise, Insurance_1 from last year is now Insurance_A)
Japanese Black Trifele (B0)

Row 7
Terhune (A)
Japanese Black Trifele (B1)

Row 8
empty
Wm21_A3 (Misc Tasty Black 2020)
Wm21_A4 (Carolina cross #183 2016)
Wm21_A5 (Weeks NC Giant #2 21 Sep 2016—was from MatinaBush_A seed, from the smaller fruit of a bushy plant; transplanted on 29 May)
Morelle De Balbis volunteer (F)
Horse_A--from Girl Girl's Weird Thing (2A), but the fruit doesn't appear to have stripes. Named Horse_A on 29 June.

Row 9
Wm21_A6 (Carolina Cross #183 2016)
Wm21_A7 (Weeks NC Giant #1 21 Sep 2016 largest)
Wm21_A8 (Carolina Cross #183 2016)
Empty
Empty

Row 10
empty
empty
empty
empty
empty
empty
empty
MatinaBush_B--formerly refered to as Matina (2B); from the larger fruit of a bushy plant; transplanted on 29 May
Orange Jazz (A)

Row 11
All eight empty


NW plot:

Row 1
v21_A26 (RL volunteer)
v21_A27 (RL volunteer)

Row 2
Napoli (C5)
Wm21_A9 (WNCG #2 24 Aug 2020)

Row 3
Napoli (C6)
Purple Beauty Pepper (A)

Row 4
u21_A Pepper
California Wonder Purple Pepper (A)
Midnight Dreams Pepper (A)--This possibly got mixed up with another purple pepper by it, but they'll probably all get cross-pollinated anyway.
Lilac Bell Pepper (A)

Row 5
u21_A0 Pepper (Probably Coral Bell, A0)
Coral Bell Pepper (A)
u21_A1 Pepper (Probably Coral Bell, A1)
White Cloud Pepper (A; timeless-tomatoes)

Row 6
Canary Bell Pepper (A)
u21_A2 Pepper (Probably Canary Bell, A0)
Napoli (C7)
Empty

Row 7
Huerfano Bliss melon (B)
Empty
Stick (B7), and Stick (B9)
Stick (B8)

Row 8
Huerfano Bliss melon (B0)
Empty
Empty
Empty

Row 9
Huerfano Bliss melon (B1)
wbv21_A4 (Wonderberry volunteer)
Empty
Empty

Row 10
Huerfano Bliss melon (B2)
wbv21_A5 (Wonderberry volunteer)
Empty
Woodpile covers this spot


North plot:

Row 1
u21_A3 pepper (probably Goccia d'Oro Pepper, A)

Row 2
Paradicsom Alaku Sarga Szentes Pepper (A)
Petit Marseillais Pepper (A)
Chocolate Pepper (A)

Row 3
Etuida Pepper (A)
u21_A4 Pepper
u21_A5 Pepper

Row 4
u21_A6 Pepper

Row 5
u21_A7 Pepper
Lesya Pepper (A)
Zulu Pepper (A)
u21_A8 Pepper
u21_A9 Pepper

Row 6
Neapolitan Pepper (A)
Jimmy Nardello Pepper (A)
Ajvarski Pepper (A)
Lipstick Pepper (A)
Empty (was Golden Treasure pepper, A)

18 gallon tote row (east to west)
Hungarian Sweet Wax (A), and Hungarian Sweet Wax (A0)
Golden California Wonder Pepper (A), and v21_A25 tomato (RL volunteer; probably Garden Leader Monster)
Golden California Wonder Pepper (A0)
Golden California Wonder Pepper (A1)

Buckets (5-gallon, except the one 4-gallon):

Row 1 (north to south; Orange Sun and/or Hungarian Sweet Wax)
u21_A10 Pepper
u21_A11 Pepper in 4-gallon bucket

Row 2 (Orange Sun and/or Hungarian Sweet Wax)
u21_A12 Pepper
u21_A13 Pepper
u21_A14 Pepper
u21_A15 Pepper
u21_A16 Pepper
Orange Sun Pepper (A)
u21_A17 Pepper
u21_A18 Pepper

10-gallon tote row (north to south)
Orange Sun Pepper (A0)
Orange Sun Pepper (A1)
Orange Sun Pepper (A2)
Orange Sun Pepper (A3)
Orange Sun Pepper (A4)
Orange Sun Pepper (A5)

Mulched row in ground (north to south; Golden California Wonder and Hungarian Sweet Wax)
Empty (had pepper)
u21_A19 Pepper
u21_A20 Pepper
Empty (probably had pepper)
u21_A21 Pepper
Hungarian Sweet Wax Pepper (A1)
u21_A22 Pepper
u21_A23 Pepper
u21_A24 Pepper
u21_A25 Pepper
u21_A26 Pepper
u21_A27 Pepper
u21_A28 Pepper
Golden California Wonder Pepper (A2)
u21_A29 Pepper
The rest of the row is empty

NW plot by watermelon trellis (north to south):
Wm21_A10 (Misc. Tasty red[-seeded] 2020)
Wm21_A11 (King Winter cross 12 Sep 2020)
Wm21_A12 (Santo Domingo Dark Green 12 Aug 2020)

Notes:
* Some tomatoes came from multiple plants, but where I lost track, I'm treating them as if they came from one plant, with the ID system.
* To understand the names and letters you see associated with particular plants, see this thread about the plant ID and lineage-tracking system: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2616
* I'm not using my ID system with the wonderberries this year because they came from volunteers and I don't know which plants are their parents with certainty. Seeds can sprout years later and in surprising locations. I plan to grow them from volunteers next year, too (although I plan to save seeds again, this year).
* When I talk about Napoli, 2020 plants that I'm growing this year, that's the same as Napoli (C) and its siblings.
* When I talk about Napoli, 2019 plants that I'm growing this year they're the same as Napoli (B0) and the siblings of it that I'm growing this year. Napoli (B0) and Napoli (C) are the same variety (unless they're cross-pollinated).
* Wm21_ is the group of all my watermelons that I'm growing this year (and their descendants), to make them easier to reference and track in few words.

While the above list has been edited from time to time, the section afterward is specific to the time I wrote the post (so, I've since transplanted all those tomatoes):

I still have about 14 Napoli, 2020 plants to transplant (they're still tiny), a Sprite tomato (which should go in the flower garden), and Matina (which should go where I indicated).

Many of the empty spots are shaded, or else are purposefully empty to give extra room for other things.

So, here are the tomatoes that either didn't sprout or died (most probably from damping off disease):
Atkinson
Blush
BSX x 1 (the other three lived)
Carbon (all three sprouted and later died)
Cherokee Carbon F1 (sprouted and died)
Cherokee Chocolate (it was doing well at one point, but died)
Cherokee Yellow
Cherokee Yellow Perfection Peach (a pest gnawed it down post-transplant, on a date after this post)
Costoluto Genovese (never sprouted)
Flaming Burst (sprouted and died)
Girl Girl's Weird Thing x 1 (the other one lived)
Great White
Isis Candy x 1 (the other one lived)
Matina (Although it died, I replanted and have another one to transplant soon.)
Mexican Yellow cross F2 (sprouted and died)
Napoli, 2019 x 1 (the other two lived)
Napoli, 2020 (all three died, but I replanted lots, and I think there are 12 containers of them)
Napoli cross B F2 x 1 (the other two lived)
Neves Azorean Red
Pakenham Pear
Pink Bumble Bee (sprouted and died)
Red Stuffer (sprouted and died)
Sprite (I replanted, and have another one to transplant soon.)
Stick x 5 (the other 7 lived, and I think I have a couple more to transplant soon)
Stump of the World (never sprouted)
SunGold F1 (a pest seems to have killed it post-transplant)
Sun Green Improved F1 (never sprouted)
SunOrange F2 (sprouted and died)
Sweet Ozark Orange

Wow! A lot more died or didn't sprout than I realized. But, I have loads of volunteers!

I'm convinced that freezing the seeds before I planted in 2020 actually did increase the vigor of some varieties (I seemed to notice it most with BSX, Insurance_1 vs Insurance_2, and Napoli). I didn't do it, this year, except for those I got in trades and such. I plan to do that again next year with all my tomatoes and peppers. Note that I believe the Napoli, 2019 seeds were frozen last year before I planted them then.

So, here's a list of the tomatoes that are alive:

About 20 spots with volunteers, and . . .

Transplanted:

Amana Orange x 3
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Black Bear
Black Beauty
Black Cherry
BSX x 3
Cherokee Yellow Perfection Peach
Chocolate Chestnut
Church
Cold Black Brandy
Cosmic Eclipse
Costoluto Florentino
Dinner Plate
Egg Yolk
Frittata Kitchen x 2
Galapagos Island
Garden Leader Monster
Girl Girl's Weird Thing
Insurance_2
Isis Candy
Japanese Black Trifele x 3
Marion
Matt's Hornet
Mexican Yellow
Mexican Yellow cross F3
Napoli, 2019 x 2
Napoli cross A F2 x 6
Napoli cross B x 2
Orange Jazz
Picnic_2 x 2
Purple Calabash cross F2
Purple Russian (wispy)
Stick x 7
SunChocola F3
SunCitron F2
SunDolce F2 x 2
SunGarnet F2
SunLemon F2
SunPeach F2
Terhune

Need to be moved from where they are:
Japanese Black Trifele x 1
Some volunteers (I might put some of the extras in empty spots; many of the spots with volunteers have several volunteers.)

Not transplanted, yet (they're still tiny, and I may have to transplant them that way):
Matina
Napoli, 2020 (about 12)
Sprite
About 2 more Stick tomatoes

So, of the ones that are alive, here are the ones that are entirely new to me (not counting unstable tomatoes whose parents I've grown):
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Church
Costoluto Florentino
Dinner Plate
Matt's Hornet
Orange Jazz
Purple Russian
SunCitron F2
SunDolce F2
SunGarnet F2
SunLemon F2
SunPeach F2
Terhune

Here are those that I've grown before where I'm trying a new source:
Black Beauty
Girl Girl's Weird Thing

Okay, I just planted the following:

In foam cups, to transplant later:
* Watermelons x 12 (most are different kinds, and most, if not all, are crosses; most are related to Weeks NC Giant, but there's a King Winter cross, 2 of Carolina Cross #183, a Santo Domingo Dark Green, etc.)
* Edna Slaton's Candelabra okra (likely a cross)
* Louisiana 16" Long Pod okra (likely a cross)
* West India burr gherkins x 3

In the ground (in an area with black plastic, with potassium sulfate added to the soil):
* Huerfano Bliss melons x 4 (each planting site uses seeds from a different fruit; so, there are potentially four different crosses, as I grew a several different kinds of melons the year I saved these seeds)

We're planning to have a hog wire trellis for the Huerfano Bliss melons.

I froze the dry watermelon seeds before planting them.

Yeah, I'm late in planting the watermelon, okra, and muskmelons, but I have hope that they'll be okay.

These were also planted in the garden, today (not by me), and a hog wire trellis has been set up for the vining cucumbers and Armenian cucumbers:
* Muncher cucumbers
* Lemon cucumbers
* Armenian cucumbers (yes, I know these can cross with Huerfano Bliss, but I've got plenty of Huerfano Bliss seeds)
* Dark Green zucchini (that's what the American Seed packet says)
* Peaches and Cream sweet corn

We also have potatoes, snow peas, safflower, radishes, probably carrots, and several kinds of greens (including probably chard, kale, and collards; maybe spinach) planted and/or growing.

There's a curious red plant that looks like lettuce in the exact same spot where one just like it was last year. I don't know if it survived the winter or reseeded.

We also have a whole lot of horseradish, wild sunroots, a couple spots of hybrid sunroots, thornless blackberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, elderberries, a young Nectarine tree, some potted cacti, Sempervivum, roses, yarrow, poppies, dead nettle, irises, chives, garlic, daffodils, tulips, sage, creeping thyme, horehound, catnip, spearmint, grape hyacinths, wormwood, sunflowers, two kinds of sedum, bleeding hearts, burning bushes, forsythia bushes, bunching onions, onions, grapevines (seedless types), etc.

I watered the tomatoes, peppers, and wonderberries on Friday. I saw a toad, and heard at least one (as I watered).

We stacked our leftover firewood logs from the winter.

I think all the chicory from last year died. None of the epazote has reseeded, so far.

I gave the Isis Candy tomato some potassium sulfate (just as last year).

I decided not to transplant a fifth wonderberry in my row of wonderberries.

The UV index was 10 on Friday. It's been around that since Tuesday or Wednesday (for the daily high).

Ever since I got the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, I haven't been super sensitive to ultraviolet light anymore. I don't know if it's responsible or if it's one of a couple other things I've been doing, but either way, I'm quite grateful to be able to enjoy the sun again (but I still plan to keep wearing my UV400 goggles during the day anyway). Maybe I had a latent Coronavirus infection (for a whole year) that was causing the light-sensitivity, and the vaccine helped me fend it off. The UV-sensitivity did appear last spring, interestingly, around the same time as I learned about the pandemic.

Yeah, going from worrying that the sun might kill me to not being bothered by it is pretty awesome. But yeah, severe UV-sensitivity changes a person: I don't feel the same as I felt before the spring of 2020--I wonder what I'll feel like next (meaning after I get used to being recovered). I just Googled light-sensitivity and COVID-19, and I found this:
https://www.theraspecs.com/blog/covid-1 ... nsitivity/

I tend to get increased light-sensitivity when I get a cold or the flu. So, it's not surprising that I might get it with COVID-19, too (if I had it). Definitely had migraine-like symptoms (but the actual headaches themselves were more like sinus headaches).

Awesome news on the reduced UV sensitivity, and you’ve had a very busy time of it lately!

Okay, so, I transplanted everything that was left to transplant (except the seeds that haven't sprouted yet in the foam cups, which only include watermelon, 2 cups of okra, and three West India burr gherkins; I transplanted the only remaining West India burr gherkin that had sprouted in the black containers). I watered my transplants and other plants while I was at it, too (we have a nozzle that makes it easier to spot-water stuff; so, I might be watering more often, this year, early on, anyway).

I discovered that I had another Matina seedling. The old one resprouted, apparently; so, two Matinas, now.

Morelle De Balbis died; so, this will be the first year without it since I first started growing it in 2016.

The Sprite tomato isn't in the flower garden, after all. It's by the peas and onions instead, and it's not mulched, and has no black plastic.

There are volunteers where SunGold F1 was.

I'm going to edit my planting map with the updated stuff that I remember off-hand. Some of the Napolis and Stick tomatoes are on the northwestern plot, with the peppers and the Huerfano Bliss melons on the black plastic. Okay, I edited it.

I transplanted the Japanese Black Trifele that was with Terhune.

Earlier this evening, I thinned the tomatoes, except the ones that don't have sizeable first leaves (besides cotyledons), yet.

Okay, so, I went out and watered stuff today, again (on account of the new transplants from Saturday, and the peppers, which were thirsty--but I watered all the tomatoes and the four wonderberries, too, since it's pretty easy with that nozzle--I can stand up while I use it since it's long).

So, the Matina tomato from the smaller fruit died (the Matina from the larger fruit is looking great). The smallest pepper (it only had cotyledons) died. Another small pepper died a few days ago. Everything else is looking great.

Insurance_2 is the biggest tomato plant, I think. It's amazing how quickly it got that way from how small it used to be. Egg Yolk is pretty big, too.

A large percentage of the tomatoes have buds (a lot of them are large buds, too). The volunteer that is probably Galapagos Island has a number of blooms, but no fruit, yet.

The Stick tomatoes are growing nicely; they're not stunted--so, I'm excited.

There are volunteer tomatoes growing in the spot where I decided not to plant an extra wonderberry. There are at least one or two new volunteers elsewhere, too.

The rest of the transplants are looking great! The Japanese Black Trifele that I moved looks excellent (like it didn't even get transplanted).

I can start doing foliar sprays of fertilizer on various plants. I should get more spray bottles (so I can do multiple kinds at once--not necessarily on the same plants).

Okay, I ordered three new spray bottles. I love these things:


The idea of using these is to conserve fertilizer (it doesn't take much to do a foliar spray in these) and to circumvent any soil compatibility issues. I plan to use them for my houseplants, too. I already have a sprayer that can be attached to the hose, but it requires strange calculations and it uses the fertilizer faster.

So, here's what I might potentially put in them, currently--not all at the same time:
1. Calcium nitrate
2. Potassium sulfate
3. Miracle Gro tomato fertilizer (I need to test this to make sure it works as a foliar spray)
4. Miracle Gro generic fertilizer (outdoors only)
5. Monopotassium phosphate
6. Epsom salt
7. Ammonium sulfate
8. Urea (I don't have much left)
9. Monoammonium phosphate

Of course, I'll want to wear goggles and/or a mask for some of those.

If you know any other all-purpose (or tomato/vegetable) water-soluble dry fertilizers that work well as a foliar spray, let me know.

You will want to keep one sprayer seperate for the Calcium Nitrate, if you mix this with any of the other chemicals you have listed you will create an insoluble compound and clog the sprayer

I did a foliar spray of calcium nitrate on the following plants:

* The houseplants in my bedroom (they're used to it; I've been giving them a bunch of stuff besides nitrogen in the soil, and then spraying the leaves with calcium nitrate; they include my grapefruit tree, three pink-flowering Thanksgiving cactuses, one red-flowering Thanksgiving cactus, six pink-flowering Christmas cactuses, and two Golden Pothos plants)
* All the peppers (about 65 of them; at least one or two were yellowing)
* The smaller tomato plants that weren't just transplanted (including the Stick tomatoes, Napoli from 2019 seed, smaller volunteers, the once severed Napoli cross A F2, Terhune, Isis Candy, and others)
* A number of medium to bigger tomatoes
* The row of wonderberries
* Our nectarine tree (it could use some growth)
* A white-flowering rose bush (it needed nitrogen)
* A potted Northern Catalpa tree
* The red-flowering Thanksgiving cactus that I experimentally planted outside (from a cutting)

I actually used a whole 51oz of the solution (about 51oz of water with just under a tablespoonful of prilled calcium nitrate). I didn't think I'd use it up that quickly, but it beats pouring it in the soil, using more than that for a single plant.

Yesterday, the first tomato of the year set fruit. It was from the volunteer that is probably Galapagos Island.

There was a watermelon seed that was suspended above the soil by its root (the seed hadn't opened, nor grown a stem, but the root was maybe a few inches long). So, I took it out (the root came out cleanly) and I planted it in the ground in with the main body of tomatoes. The soil there looks great. Hopefully it lives and sprouts. It's from a Weeks NC Giant cross last year (one that I mentioned was tasty).

I watered the peppers and some of the tomatoes a few hours ago. The soil of the peppers has been drying out pretty fast. Things in general dry out pretty fast here, though.

I saw two remarkably big toads in the backyard last night. Yesterday morning, I saw a big, nice-looking magpie eating ants on our patio. The ants were pretty active, then.

Our last Red-seeded Citron watermelon (harvested in November, 2019) finally went bad (I noticed a ~2" rotting spot on it some hours ago). I buried it outside. So, it kept for 19 months!

I'd been thinking about eating it (in a pie), but I also wanted to see how long it lasted, since it outlasted all the others.

Another one I gave my sister a really long time ago just went bad a few days ago (I was hoping she would eat it, but she named it and put it on her table. She didn't want to eat it after she named it.)

I noticed a Stick tomato had a branch on it, yesterday. The parent plants had branches, too. I've read that it's only supposed to have one stem. I'm glad they branch, though, personally, even if it means it's not true-to-type. I haven't had any of other leaf-types, though; so, I'm guessing it probably is true-to-type.

Yesterday morning, I put tomato cages on several plants (mostly on Napoli tomatoes, since they're wire cages), but also on Sprite, both Picnic_2 plants, 1 Napoli cross B F2, 1 Frittata Kitchen, a couple volunteers, and maybe other stuff.

We put up three hog wire trellises, yesterday, for the muskmelons, some watermelons, and the Galapagos Island tomato that wasn't a volunteer. Had I known we would have a trellis there, I might have put the Egg Yolk tomato there instead (to watch it climb).

We used wood from some of the giant tomato cages for the stakes for the trellises.

The blackcurrants have a lot of fruit, this year.

There are some young red-tailed hawks making sounds outside. They've been vocal for a long time, and their voices sound different than they used to.

Some Cosmos and Zinnias (from a packet labeled California Giant Mix) are being planted, now. We had the same Zinnias last year and they were nice.

The roses are looking great.

I'm sure there's enough tarragon out there to season a thousand dishes of chicken. I should make some powder with it!

Alexa says it's supposed to get up to 101 degrees F., today (low of 65). It feels nice right now. Plenty of birds singing (doves, sparrows, young red-tailed hawks, and probably other birds). 70 degrees. Clear skies. 2.1 MPH wind. 49% humidity (that's kind of high, actually).

The UV index is 3 right now. It's supposed to get up to 10, later today.

[mention]Shule[/mention] be careful out there. I'm glad to hear that you got so much done in the morning.

[mention]MissS[/mention]
Thanks. It's been hot out there, this afternoon. My UV-sensitivity is still gone; so, that's great. I don't even have to wear UV400 goggles to avoid a headache when the UV is high (but I still like to wear them, since it's good for long-term eye health and all, and a hat, too). The heat's been making me need more water (and the plants, too). I've been drinking lots of orange juice, too.

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So, I'm thinking if I want to grow peppers unmulched and without black plastic (we plan to get more mulch, but I'm not sure when; maybe Saturday), it looks like watering them at least twice a day might be enough to prevent them from getting stunted. Once a day doesn't seem to be enough when it's hot. Tomatoes seem more drought-tolerant, probably because they get bigger faster (I could get away without watering many of them, if I wanted to--but I've been watering them anyway, since I want them to grow faster and be more prolific, and since some of them are still small or in soil that dries out faster than usual). The tomatoes have black plastic, though (which locks in some of the moisture), except for the Sprite tomato.

The West India burr gherkins in the foam cups are sprouting, and it looks like some of the watermelons in the foam cups are, too (the watermelon soil is bulging). I'm glad they can sprout at these temperatures (they might even prefer it, as long as they can stay wet--they have a hard time sprouting directly in the ground: it dries out fast, and that might have something to do with it).

In the area by the first trellis, the Armenian cucumbers and the Muncher cucumbers are starting to sprout.

The sprayers that I ordered on Monday arrived. That was fast.

I project that the first ripe tomato will occur be between July 4th and 8th, using last year as a guide. The first fruit set on 1 June. Last year, the first fruits to ripen set on ~2 and 3 June, and both ripened on 9 July. They should be the same kind that set fruit first this year. However, this year, it's a volunteer; so, the uninterrupted taproot (and the different location) might change things.

Here are some assorted pictures from the garden. I would have taken more, but I had to do some stuff.

Here's the first tomato fruit to set: Here are the peppers that need to be mulched: Here are the Armenian cucumbers sprouting: Here's a rose bush with some variegation: Here's our most prolific gooseberry bush: Here's a comfrey bush that had been transplanted to be in a new spot for this year: Here are some flowers (the Irises looked nicer the other day): Here's our most mature safflower plant (I believe it's a volunteer): Here's that mysterious red lettuce-type plant that I was talking about: Some of our horseradish in bloom: Here's some overwintered garlic that was found in a big cluster: Here are the seeds I'm starting in foam cups (watermelon, West India burr gherkins, and okra); the seedlings are further out now: Here's a bunch of peppers: Here's a nice rose bush with lots of flowers (it's one of our two oldest roses):

All so lovely! Thanks for sharing.The gooseberry makes me wanna crumble and cream.

Two of the four spots of Huefano Bliss melons are sprouting. I direct-seeded those.

All the watermelons, except the two containers of Carolina Cross #183, and the watermelon with a root that I transplanted in the ground, have sprouted. The newer ones (besides the red-seeded one--probably Navajo Red or a cross with it) have sprouted more abundantly than the Weeks NC Giant watermelons from 2016 (that was the first year I grew Weeks NC Giant; I'm trying to get more of the original genetics in the mix).

I watered the tomatoes, wonderberries, peppers, and foam cups.

The weather said, today, that it was supposed to have gotten to 103, but I'm not sure if it got quite that high. Earlier this week it said it would be 104.

It's looking stormy outside.

The storminess is gone. It didn't last long. I went out and took some more pictures.

Please excuse the debris around some of the plants (from the former wood pile and general garden debris from last year that I need to clean up, still), and the tattered black plastic in some areas. This is the same black plastic we put down in 2018 (it's not the thickest kind, but it's held up pretty well, IMO).

Here are the pictures:

Girl Girl's Weird Thing tomato: Watermelon and West India burr gherkin seedlings (the okra hasn't sprouted, yet): Catnip: A wind-swept grapevine: Clematis with horehound in the background: Hollyhocks: Sunroot sunflower crosses: The piece of ground where I buried the last Red-seeded Citron watermelon fruit from November 2019: Where the Zinnias and probably some other flowers have been planted: Wonderberry volunteers (I think they're displacing our lambsquarter, this year!): Wonderberry volunteers (with peppers): A wind-swept Insurance_2 tomato: More wind-swept tomatoes: Tomatoes: Sprite tomato: Japanese Black Trifele tomatoes: Some Napoli, 2020 tomatoes (small): Terhune tomato (from a cutting): The row of wonderberries: Roses: Rose pest damage (probably from leafhoppers): Orange Jazz tomato: Porch rocks: A bucket of rocks: A bird bath of rocks: Red Gold semi-dwarf nectarine tree: Chives, deadnettle, tarragon, a grapevine rooted from a cutting, and probably other plants: Poppies (they looked perfect on Memorial Day): Flowers: Bleeding hearts: Spearmint: One of the Japanese Black Trifele tomatoes (flowering nicely): Here's a closer shot of that rooted grapevine cutting (rooted last year): I think this is fennel (unless it's dill): Peppers (they need more mulch): The peppers in 18-gallon totes: The northern catalpa tree in a container: Blackcurrants: Thornless blackberries: Horseradish: Sage: An outer view of the volunteer that is probably Galapagos Island (it's the first tomato to have set fruit, this year): Onions: Sempervivum: Potatoes and snow peas: A row of tomatoes (from near to far: Purple Russian, SunChocola F3, Amana Orange, BSX, BSX, BSX, Napoli cross B F2): A dove, in flight: