Day 74

Soooooooooooooo, I think my pumpkin plants are succumbing to the white fungus mildew. Major sadness here. I took drastic action and cut them back tremendously. Additionally, I took a lighter and a flammable aerosol can (axe... smells lovely) and hopefully smoked/fumigated the white fungus spores... as I read somewhere that they don't like heat. (These are before fires pics). Jeez, fingers crossed that I can at least keep my 1 good jack-o-lantern what with all the watering and tender loving care as my dad calls it. I do love my pumpkin so. I will probably need another bigger container by this Friday though... By the way, a real pumpkin patch should look like the ones found on this website: Pumpkinmania!

Here's the baby on the right side that unfortunately still caught that white fungus mildew as the right one seems to have got the fungus really bad. Definitely tried to smoke that shit, seriously. 

I keep reading how once the pumpkins get these white fungus mildew, they tend to die. Eeeek! Also, I've been spraying with apple cider vinegar solution on M and T and today was fire. I hope my baby keeps growing strong! Good thing I don't care about flavor as this will be a jack-o-lantern and not a pie pumpkin. Otherwise, I've read that the flavor will be weak.

And here's my arugula and cherry tomato plant. I'm a bit bummed that the tomatoes have not turned red yet. I am wondering if these will turn out to be regular tomatoes on the vine, but the biggest size seems to be no bigger than a golf ball. Also, there are LOTS of little groups of cherry tomatoes now. I counted about 6 or 7! Yippee! And as you can see, my last minute support choice is a torch. I figured when the cherry tomato plant gives what it gives, the whole thing will just die off and the torch will go back to where it came from... a pot of dirt). I also ended up rounding all the tomato branches and tying them together (loosely, obviously) with twine. If you look closely, you can kind of make them out.

Close up of the arugula. It's flowering! Maybe I'll harvest some seeds or something...