Answers to questions: 1) I haven't been fertilizing regularly, whatever that means. I top-dressed the soil with the contents of my compost tumbler about a month after planting. Last week I added organic veggie food (granules) hoping to see improvement. 2) Watering tomatoes...I was always told that tomatoes do not like a lot of water. I typically water my garden every 2-3 days in the evening with a shower nozzle at the base of every plant. Not a lot, just enough to soak the ground in the entire raised bed frame. 3) I have cukes at the front of the trellis and yellow squash and zuchinni at the back. In retrospect the squash should not be there due to space issues, lesson learned. However all of my zuchinni flowers have died and I don't know why. 4) I noticed that powdery mildew as well. What is it? Causes? Can I get rid of it? This is the my first stab at gardening in our new house so I don't have anything else to compare to except our previous home where every crop pretty much flourished. My tomato plants are very wimpy looking in terms of the number of branches and fruit compared to my previous garden. I picked a few ripening cherry tomatoes yesterday. They are about half the size of a normal cherry tomato. I joked to my kids and told them that they are blueberry tomatoes.

Gardenfanatic: That's an Ostrich fern. It usually is fuller, but I had my siding done in June and some stuff got trampled. I put a big cardboard box around that one, and the weight of the box broke a few fronds. Oh well. Ostrich ferns are beautiful, very lush. I usually end up buying new EE every year. I've tried overwintering the bulbs but I don't seem to have the right conditions for that - crawl space isn't cool enough, and the rot in the fridge (too moist). I keep trying, through.

Okay, I posted pics of some of my cannas last year here https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/4762646/midsummer-cannas-in-my-garden and I will now share some more! :) This canna came from Pike's and was unlabeled. It is a gorgeous salmon pink with speckled blooms and dark maroon/olive leaves. Just lovely. If anyone knows the name please feel free to let me know! When Pike's looked it up in their system in order to get a price, they used Canna Extravaganza. Not sure if it's really that canna though... This is Canna Tuerckheimii, the true Banana canna. I got this guy from Brian's and it has been a little slow but its so showy! Can't wait to see it in the ground this year in the new yard. Here it is again in the mixed container garden. This is Canna Erebus. It has lovely blue green leaves and it grows and blooms nonstop. It is wonderful to landscape with since it goes with everything. This is Canna Thai Rainbow. Its foliage is so pretty and its blooms are small, orange, and similar to Canna Intrigue. This picture certainly shows the effects of insects... Its so important to control for insects with the virus issues we face. Undeniably I was slacking in applications some last year... Ah, Canna Australia with those deep red blooms! (Pardon my car and the wheelbarrow in the background). Canna Canova Rose is really eye-catching in the landscape. Mine are fairly new. Here is an established clump at UGA where it just blooms and blooms and blooms!

I'm glad you all enjoyed the frolic in fairyland. I had fun putting it together. I just love my garden during wild larkspur season--gets an "exotic" look it doesn't sport the rest of the year. Kate