I hate squash bugs. An easy way to get them is to lay a board or shingle down on the ground fairly close to the plants. The squash bugs will congregate under that shingle or board, and then all you have to do is lift it up and step on them and squish them (or squash them!).

On the watermelon, it might be normal. It depends on the variety and it depends on how long they've been in the ground and how long they've been flowering.

Watermelons have male and female flowers, so check yours and see if you have female flowers yet. If you have only male flowers so far, which is normal early on, the females should soon appear. When that happens, you'll still need to have pollinators around to transfer the pollen from the males to the females. If you don't have pollinators, you can pollinate them yourself by transferring the pollen from the male to the female. Watermelons produce relatively few female flowers/potential fruit in comparison to other cucurbits, so it is important to watch them carefully and make sure they all get pollinated.

My squash is getting pollinated okay (not great, but okay), so I think I have pollinators. I don't see many pollinators. I haven't seen any honeybees at all and not very many butterflies or those flies that sit on flowers.

I'll try that board trick. Thanks!

Today it's raining! Yay for me! (and everyone else lucky enough to be rained on today) It puts a bit of a damper on our 4th of July celebrations, but the rain probably won't last.