It's been unseasonably cool here, which my heat loving plants don't seem to be, um, loving. I don't think it's broken 90 degrees here in weeks, and that's really unusual for July. I read somewhere, though, that we've been in an unseasonably hot weather pattern for many decades, and now our weather pattern is switching into a cooler one that'll also last for several decades, so I guess this is what I'll have to look forward to for a while, unless I decide to move. This year has been bad with the psyllids infesting my tomatoes, but thankfully it happened later than last year, which means that my plants got off to a better start and were more established by the time the bugs really started kicking into gear. I've already gotten some nice tomatoes, and that's an improvement on last year, where basically every tomato I picked was awful - stunted, not tasty, not sweet, and either waterlogged or just gross. My zucchini and squash aren't doing great, and I always expect them to go gangbusters, so that's always sort of weird for me. Beans haven't put on very many flowers, but then again, they haven't put on all that much foliage either. I've been hesitant to fertilize because everything I've read says not to feed them, but they did get a small bit since they share a bed with the zukes and squash and I've fed them to see if that helps with production and overall vigor of the plants. My eggplants are doing pretty well though, as far as I can tell, since this is the first year I've grown them. Peppers are still short, but all but the habanero are putting out a fair amount of fruit, so I'm excited about that. I don't know what the hab's problem is. It was the runt of the litter for a while, then it shot up and caught up with the rest of the peppers, but it's much bushier with smaller, more abundant foliage, and I think only 1 pepper has set. I've been meaning to keep up with the crazy 3x fertilizing experiment that was mentioned in another thread, but I've been too busy to do much in the garden lately, so that's fallen by the wayside. At least they've gotten some fertilizer, and it doesn't seem to have affected them negatively whatsoever (in terms of excess foliage/plant growth while impairing flower production). In fact, they look greener, better, and healthier, and they're still flowering and setting fruit at a normal rate (well, "normal" compared to last year, since it's the only thing I have to reference). This weird weather is probably going to become the norm until I'm old and gray, so I guess I'd better start adapting my gardening now!

What I usually do is I have a 5 gallon bucket for the indoor system reservoir, and an additional 5 gallon bucket for adding water throughout the week. I set the water out in this second 5 gallon bucket and add 10 ml H2O2 for four or five gallons. If I don't I discovered that the reservoir will get funky in a couple days and then I have to scrape the slime off of the top after disinfecting the reservoir with H2O2. I only tried rain water once and will definitely keep it up once I get a good system in place. I'm just a little skeptical of my vinyl shingles and water quality so I may try to rig up something on my metal shed instead. So yea, the H2O2 is a preventive/standard procedure for me pretty much. Also, I noticed that even after four days of letting that water just sit there waiting to be used, when I pour it out it bubbles -- that H2O2 has put a lot of oxygen in that water. This might be my last post on this thread as I am now harvesting the last of the tomatoes - on the EARLY maturity date I might add - and they are very good tasting before and after flushing. Here are some final pics of a portion of the harvest, some notes, and some random outdoor pics too... Thanks everyone for your help on this thread -- the next time around I will be more vigilant to prune the sucker shoots and trim off deformed fruit to get the fruit bigger, but for the pathetic job I did this time around, this turned out GREAT! Here is a link that might be useful: Here are the pictures.

I would have to wait till daylight when I get home from work tomorrow to see if the tag states that it is an indet. Mine have never gotten taller than about 3 feet tall. Also they come in basket container if you are willing to spend the cash for one. $15 and some change is not bad considering by the time one purchased the plant, potting mix, and the basket pot you would spend that much anyway. Also most of them are near to 2 feet tall with fruit setting on them already. I planted one in the planter that had a Bush Goliath in it, and it was battered to smiterinees as Yosimite Sam would say. It despite being pruned so heavily still setting fruit. I have eaten at least 25 cherry tomatoes off of it. I have no clue as to the number my wife has beaten me to. Tomorrow I will get a pic of it. It should also show how the stem looks. I have not pruned a thing on that plant. It was a hail stone pruning. Oh and seyson if you get the one gallon sized in the plastic pots ignore the DTM they put on there. I have seen many that already had fruit on them with tons of buds still forming. They will still grow while setting, and ripening fruit. The 4 inch ones that were $3.58 or so give or take a few cents grew like weeds. The pic of the plant I have posted was planted in ground the last week of March. It started setting fruit the Third week of April.

I thank everyone for trying to help me with the Tomato bug problem. I suspect the bugs to be pests. I had noted several tomatoes deformed and damaged in this plant before I saw the bunch of these menacing insects with two separate dark spots on its abdominal region and orange yellow skin color as seen in the image. After reading your answers I took some more photos, pushed some of the insects into an oiled container for closer examination and plucked one tomato with several of these bugs crawling on it. On that tomato, I saw a dark and an orange-yellow insects joined in copulating position while a dark one was seen crawling a little away. I also saw a round depressed scar and a thick linear scar extending from it. Are these bugs the cause of the damage? I will try the Metro DataVac Electric Duster Vacuum cleaner method to physically remove the bugs. I will post back the result after a period of observation.