Cukes and Melons are Now Past Tense

A week away on vacation allowed bad bugs to get a foothold in the cucumbers and melons. The bug invasion proved to be the beginning of the end. Luckily, I had a good yield of cucumbers early on, but the melons were affected before they fully ripened. The green, lush pre-vacation vines were turning brown at the time of my homecoming. There was no recovering from that point. Here's what the beds looked like this morning. What you can't see is the continued presence of those stinky bugs in the plant detritus!

The beds are now cleaned out and ready for fall crops.