After last night's rain, the ground was nice & moist and my yet unplanted lower garden was just begging to be planted in something, anything. So I planted one long row of pumpkins and two long rows of watermelons. A whole slew of varieties all tossed in together. Some are bound to live! Anything planted down there has to be able to survive the utmost neglect. I've successfully grown watermelon down there before but I've never grown pumpkins anywhere. I can't stand the things! But some of the kids have decided they like pumpkin pie (barf!) and it would be cool to have a couple of jack o'lanterns come Halloween.

I also started a few more tomato seeds. I'm hopeless, I tell ya. Black Cherry, Chocolate Cherry, and Principe Borghese. Also got my moringa seedlings potted up and moved outside, along with the Swiss chard and elderberry seedlings. I need to throw together some protected area out of the greenhouse for those poor plants in purgatory -- not in the greenhouse, not in the garden. That's it. I'll make a designated Plant Purgatory that's outside yet protected from giant dog paws and cat poop.