Hey guys. Hey. Guys.
I have two watermelons growing on my vine. They're so cute and li'l right now but they're about to take off, I can tell. One's almost the size of a baseball! I am basically guarding them 24/7 from my children/neighbors/punk kids in the neighborhood who probably want nothing more than to steal Old Man WonderMeal's watermelons.
Also going gangbusters (or at least doing okay): okra, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, citrus trees (!), basil, mint, blueberries, and blackberries. Doing less well, either because of age or because they didn't weather my vacation very well: butternuts, poblano/bell peppers, figs, pomegranates.
Flowers that are awesome right now include: hydrangeas x1000, gardenias, impatiens, bougainvillea, mandevilla, hibiscus, yesterday-today-tomorrow (the most EMAW of shrubs, google it), begonias.
I basically feel about gardening like Ben Ji feels about fishing. Gotta have it.