Not the best photos, these are taken with my crappy 1.3 mp cell phone camera, but at least you can see how the garden is progressing. I added chicken wire to all the cuke cages for a taller trellis. What I currently have growing is tomatoes, cucumbers and broccoli. Planted a lot more broccoli this year since its one of the few plants that is resistant to root-knot nematodes so I can grow it in our native soil.
The basil plant is slowly dying, but already started a new one from seeds. One basil plant is all you need to last your forever... just wait until it flowers, dries up, and then open up the dried flowers to remove the tiny black seeds and start a new plant. You can also cut about a four inch branch off an established basil plant, put it in water until it grows roots, and then plant it in soil.
For some reason the cuke plants seem to produce only 1 or 2 cucumber plants and then die. It had a major infestation of aphids. Blasted the leaves several times with water but it might have been too late for the plant to recover. I'm surprised to discover that the cucumber plants in the 5 gallon containers are doing better so far than the one in the 18 gallon has done (with the aphids).
