Well, the thing in the previous post not a protocucumber after all, but was apparently about to become the flower than can now be seen below.
My cucumbers are going crazy. The package the seeds came in deceived me and the neighboring plants. Supposedly they were supposed to be a "compact bush variety . . ideal for small gardens and for patio containers."
They're now spreading out, and attempting to climb the hanging upside down tomato plant, as well as the normal upright tomato plant. After spending some time trying to fix a broken limb on my upright tomato plant, I realized that damage was caused by the neighboring cucumber plant pulling down on it. Attack of the Cucumbers! I'll have to watch them more closely, and maybe attempt to do some patio rearranging if the problem persists.

A cucumber?

Don't throw those egg shells away!

Use them in the garden, or just feed them to whatever plants you have around. Crushed egg shells add valuable nutrients to soil. Egg shells that are not crushed will break down very slowly.

• Put them in the bottom of plant pots instead of stones. Egg shells are much lighter than stones and they are a great source of of nutrition.
• Place egg shells in a circle on top of the ground surface around tender plant stems such as peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage to deter slugs and cutworms.
• Place egg shells in the soil near tomatoes. Calcium is very useful to tomatoes because the extra calcium will help prevent blossom end rot.
  

more tomatoes!

cucumbers getting bigger

lettuce on the left, radishes on the right

First tomato!

ESCAPE!!!!

I've had a similar situation to the woman in the video below, although not quite so dramatic. It seems my worms want to wander, and I've had some issues keeping them in their bin. The lid of the rubbermaid container they're in doesn't fit securely, leaving a small gap that the worms can crawl through. They have no problem worming their way through the gap when I have the lights turned off. The first couple days I had them, kept finding worms crawling across the floor. After trying to think of ways to seal the gap, I finally realized the simple solution, and turned the lid upside down on top of the container. This forms a solid surface to surface connection, and keeps the worms contained. Problem solved.

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