July Update

Everything I've posted since I got back was from mid-late June. Here's a more recent update:
The cucumbers are getting ready to produce. I have a Japanese slicing cucumber variety this year. Those plants have been climbing the mesh fence trellis really well:


A random insect hangs out on a cucumber blossom on an Arkansas picking cucumber plant:

These plants have physically smaller leaves and flowers, don't grow super fast, but seem pretty tough for cucumbers. I transplanted some in the middle of boiling hot weather, and every single plant survived, even though some leaves died.

Boy, the tomatoes are going nuts. Most of them are already above their cages. Compare this picture even to that from late June:


And some of the heirloom tomatoes are getting downright chunky. Here are some of the Black Sea Man tomatoes:


Beans are also climbing now. The front row are heirloom lima beans, back row are Chinese long beans (asparagus beans). They have been slower to vine out and climb.