Transplanting

You are just getting into gardening when you started this discussion? I would think it would be kinda late to be planting anything but lettuce, carrots, beets, radishes and any other cool weather plants. Hope they produce for you before winter hits, sweet.

As this is my first time growing tomatoes ever, I got completely freaked when I found a lacewing on one of them last night. This is an indoor plant in an AeroGarden Deluxe, and I know pretty green lacewings are supposed to be beneficial "good bugs" but I wondered if seeing one means there are aphids nearby. Shudder. So I inspected all of my little plantlings and didn't see anything out of order, but now I am a nervous "mom" so I started trying to read everything about tomato plant pests and read that one should not plant tomatoes near peppers because of thrips or something. Too late! But all the tomatoes and peppers look just fine and probably the lacewing just flew in last night when someone was coming in or going out. Should I be worried? Hubby wants me to try growing a hydroponic watermelon, but it is still too hot out to start anything outdoors. I had a few plants growing in water on the porch, but one day it came close to the boiling point. Sizzle. When it gets closer to "winter" I'll start one indoors in time to move out when the temp gets below 90F.

Dear a gardeners work is never done - if it is then your garden isn't doing too well :) I know I'm headed out to collect the rest of my cantilope and figure out which pumpkins I'm going to take to the Farmer's Market with me tomorrow - no way I can take them all and a few are still growing so want to wait as long as I can for those. I did manage to freeze a ton of corn this week - that's about done for the year here.