Trellises for cucumbers, beans, watermelons and planting more beans

Good progress today.

I planted more beans where the last of the snow peas had been.  I couldn't find the rest of the beans I planted elsewhere in the garden so I had tracked down some of the beans I used previously in the plot.  Blue Lake Bush Beans (from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds) went in that area next to two volunteer tomato plants.

I then applied bug dust.  I was only going to do that to the beans, but I also read that its good vs a number of tomato funguses.

It was great to see the peppers are growing, ground cherries are expanding, and the watermelons are growing nicely for the most part (although one vine doesn't look happy for some reason).

I used scrap metal fencing to finish the last bean trellis.  Unfortunately, I didn't have enough to span the entire bamboo framework.  Thankfully, some of my old Boy Scout skills came into use.  I tied a line tied to each corner with each line going to a corner of the fencing then used taut line hitches to do as the name implies. 

Once the bean trellis was finished, I made a cucumber trellis.  I took the proven method I developed from the bean trellis and took it one step further out of necessity because the plastic mesh I had left from the other bean trellises was very narrow.  Once again, four taut line hitches were used per side of the trellis.

Once all that was done I took a walk around the site.  It's been a while since I've been able to do that.  It's good to see what I can learn from what other people are doing.  I was dismayed to see a few peoples' beans looked like mine last year.  I guess the petunias and bug dust really is doing something good for the garden.

Thankfully, not my beans.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of heavy rain coming down as I type this.  In checking the radar map, it's only over my part of Maryland.  So much for the bug dust I applied today.....