Vegetable problems and flower suggestions

[teribeth]

I have a few questions I'm hoping the wisdom of this community can help me with.

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[bailey36]

the heat does things in, so does entropy, depending on what zone you are in, but in zone 5 we are nearing the end of our season, stuff gets old and crispy at this time. But for you it's probably heat and lack of rain. We need rain here, really. but not so much, so fast that our basement leaks again.

[xtricks]

try watering and adding a medium spectrum fertilizer. The melons look a bit like rust but I'm not sure.

[teribeth]

The watering and fertilizer was in reference to the tomato? I've been watering moderately but it hasn't seemed to make a difference, nor did the fertilizer I added last month. :-/

Last year my one tomato plant got a virus (it was in a container and I got rid of the dirt from that container) so I'm starting to think I'm bad luck with tomatoes.

[liminalia]

Don't pick the melons until the stem dies and drops off the fruit. The problem may be either too dry & hot or powdery mildew, which is super-common on melons and squashes.

[mmegaera]

Daffodils are nice to interplant with daylilies.