Malabars spinach a flop

Malabars spinach all a total flop.  They just stopped growing, at ~4" tall.  Don't grow again.

Bell peppers doing terribly

Bell peppers doing terribly, but so are those of many in the Edible Gardens group.  Not going to bother with peppers again in future years, never had much success with them.  Banana pepper and jalapeno pepper which I bought as transplants are doing ok, have harvested one each so far but only a few more peppers on each, might be the end of them.

Won't grow peppers next year, way too inconsistent and poor harvest.

Garlic scapes

Have harvested a few garlic scapes.  Put in salad. They're kind of bland, but perfectly edible.

Flea beetle!

Uh oh!  Flea beetle damage first noticed on one of the store-bought tomato plants, yesterday, then today on closer inspection some damage also on some of the ground cherries.  So far the two ground cherries next to the air condition are looking good.

Only reason I noticed them and knew what they were is they've been a topic on several posts on the fb group this week.

Hope they will run their course and move on without running the plants into the ground...

Next year, start zinnias earlier

Only just now starting to see a flower bud starting to form on the most developed zinnias.  Sowed on April 22nd.  Next year, try sowing ~3 weeks earlier, around April 1st.