Cantaloupe, watermelons, garlic and pumpkins

As we head into the last two months of the gardening season, we're seeing some progress in the melon patch. I see three cantaloupes so far, which is pretty good news. Not the number I was hoping for, but still better than zero!  

There are more watermelons (at least five). They are growing at a pretty good pace. The pictures below were snapped five days apart. I sent one to Jess and her co-workers were like "does your dad have giant Shaq hands or are those just tiny watermelons?"

We're also starting to harvest tomatoes. Mostly stupice at this point but the bigger tomatoes are starting to ripen.

I pulled the garlic and cached it in the garage to cure. So now everything in the garage, including the inside of the car, smells like garlic.

Things are going so-so on the trellis. I have a few more squash showing.

And a small number of cucumbers. I think the soil needed some amending so I'll work on that this fall.

The raspberries are basically done for the season. I managed to put 5 litres away in the freezer for jamming. The pumpkins are insane, though. The vine just keep spreading. Of the pumpkins I can easily get to, this is the largest so far (thumb to pinky is 9 inches) so I think we'll have a large number of pretty big pumpkins come fall.

The coronet front is probably a write off (not enough sun). And the potatoes have been a real mixed bag this year. Some good sized spuds but not a whole lot of potatoes per plant.