I saw my first ripening Sunsugar tomatoes yesterday! One almost fully ripe, and the one next to it just starting, and a few others around the plants with that hint of ripening. The Bronze Torch has some hinting of yellow color on some, and those plants are the largest, so far, growing well above the top of the 5' trellis, though the Sunsugars are close to them!
First ripening Sunsugar tomatoes! 6-20 by
pepperhead212, on Flickr
Also getting the eggplants producing - the Asian Delight Hybrid the one with the most, so far. The Matrosik is the only one with no visible fruit, but a bunch of them are forming, and it is the only larger one - the others Asian types.
First Asian Delight eggplant started, 6-20 by
pepperhead212, on Flickr
First Ichiban eggplant started, 6-20 by
pepperhead212, on Flickr
And just now, I went out to spray the okra and other things in the front and side - shady there early. I saw some #!&"# aphids on the okra last night! I had just enough of the Surround mix for those, and I added a small amount of the pyrethrin concentrate to what was left, and used it all up, mostly on the okra. Didn't see any aphids on anything else.
Yesterday I tried that mint treatment on the spotted lanternflies, after seeing several on each of the cukes. I made up a concentrate - well over a cup of leaves, blended with a cup of water in the VM, strained through a very fine strainer, and rinsed, and strained, resulting in just over a qt of very green "mint water". I only sprayed 2 of the plants, thinking that it might be too strong! The SLFs jumped off fairly quickly (normal for them), but several hours later, they were back, so covering the plants with the spray did nothing against them, but fortunately, didn't bother those plants. So I made up a small amount of pyrethrin spray, and hit each of them directly, and later didn't see them there. But, they are probably out there again today.
Around noon, when coming back in, I had to look at those cherry tomatoes (not for long, due to the sun!), and there were several more Sunsugars ripening, and at least one more Juliet. I'll look closer later, when it's shady there, even though hotter.