Ruth, I'm not trying to muddy the waters but I guess I am. I got concerned about all the talk of viruses and inspected my leaves carefully. I recently got a bonus bulb with a purchase that had fully grown leaf. On initial inspection I decided the plant needed fertilizer to provide nitrogen. With the mosaic virus influx I looked at the plant again and thought it was infected. I was saddened but the new growth did not have any problems. On closer inspection there were spots of red in the middle of small light green splotches. I determined this plant had been chewed on by some small bugs. I wonâÂÂt be able to get a good picture during the day till this weekend as I am not home during daylight hours. But I will get some pictures of the leaf damage and post them for you to check out. I am not saying anyone should take the conservative wait a little while and see approach if they are positive the plant is infected. But if you are uncertain the plant is contaminated I would personally wait a short period of time. As I do not sell hippies and thus cross contaminate other plants this is a good approach for me. Wow I did not plan on being this wordy tonight :) AJ

So far the melons are doing well. Rain caused about a 3 week delay in planting. Three weeks sounds minor but can be near tragic when growing in such a tight season. For the sake of some of the watermelons, I hope we make it up on the back end. I did change some of what I'm growing due to the late start. But not many. I won't bore you with everything I'm growing this year. But a few notes until I start harvesting. Bill, based on your feedback on Ambrosia I am growing it this year. They're looking good. So far they are prolific beautiful vines. I noticed today that several are getting their netting. Charentais and Petit Gris De Rennes are constants in my garden. Charentais are looking near perfect. I noticed new fruits on one Petit Gris De Rennes vine drying and dying after they get a little size. A lot of wilt on that vine. I injected the vine with BT. I also planted Sucrin de Tours and Montreal Melon from our conversations last year. I've been watching and cheering the Montreal Melons. Sucrin has decent fruit set but gets less attention and no encouragement. If there was a bas_tard child of that patch, Surin would be it. But with the delay in planting I feel Montreal needs my love more. There are several good sized fruits but they won't be 15 pound melons. Hale's Best gave up the ghost. It looked like it had burn commonly seen when not hardened correctly. But it was direct sowed. I pulled it and didn't look back. Any other year and I would have replanted. Boule d'Or Melon and Delice de Table are new to the party. I don't have an opinion on them yet. Bit O' Honey is also new. I have several vines in isolation for seed and some in the main garden. So far I like the culture of this one. The fruit that is set is bigger than I expected but still small. The vines imo seem compact. This one sets fruit fast and often. Some of the melons will be single serving size. Some will be snack size. In one patch there is a sick vine segment. But that patch is so out of control that I can't visually follow the vine. Today I gave up on trying to follow it and took pictures of the area. The other computers are analyzing the pictures and plotting vines as lines.

They say that it is hard to correctly identify tomato virus by photo alone, but I wouldn't rule out CMV as your photo is pretty similar to others I've seen on the web. CMV is spread by aphid and a quick bite spreads the virus from plant to plant. Plenty of hosts besides your tomatoes, so you may not be able to eliminate CMV from your area. If CMV, there's not a lot you can do besides try to control the aphids. Here's an aphid control link: http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7404.html

Looks like herbicide damage. Tomatoes are very sensitive, more so than many other plants.