Mine have been doing well since the weather is cooler - yours is just gorgeous!

You are the second person I have heard of, in the last two days, who says they have a market contract and can only sell what is on their contract. The other person said that only certain people can bring certain things. They have 2 or 3 people who can sell tomatoes, several sell melons and etc. If it were me, I would walk away from a market like that. It is like a monopoly and IMO bad for the consumers. What if the person that sells tomatoes are really bad and don't taste good? What if mine taste much better, the customers never get to try them. What about a crop failure, hailstorm? If you allowed everyone to sell what they want, then the customers will talk and the person with the best stuff will get more business and the poorer tomato person will sell less. Why restrict your customers options? Just wondering. About selling cantaloupes, why not offer them to your CSA customers for additional charge. I know some families who would eat 3 to 5 melons a week, during the season. Jay

Mine are small and seedy, too. They did not winter well this year. And then, I noticed that I was getting much less thatn expected even accounting for the sparcity bearing canes. And then I saw why. The starlings have fledged and are now roaming the country side in groups of 10 or more. In mid afternoon, a pod of starlings swooped onto my backyard and started gazing for bugs. I thought, great! I knew starlings go after specfic bugs and catapillars and they do a good job of cleaning out an infestation, and then I spied something jumping into the raspberry busy. The cane shook as the bird busied itself while trying to avoid the thorns. A couple of starlings were filling up on raspberries.

I've had a disastrous crop of tomatoes. All 42 plants hit with wilt Here is a link that might be useful: growing organic vegies