Sad Tomatoes and Happy Carrots

Would you take a look at these poor things? Aren't those the saddest tomatoes you've ever seen? If they can even still be called tomatoes. The plants/stems are still living for most of them, but almost every leaf is gone. And I don't know why! I've scoured them looking for tomato worms, and there are none. 

The tomatoes in the garden "proper" seem to be doing pretty well. They have leaves, they even have a few blossoms. But these... Every since ti tied them to stakes (and you see one has a cage and not tied at all), they've gotten scraglier and scraglier. I should do some research, but isn't that the story of my life? Lol

On to Happy Carrots, though!

Yep, look at these! They still aren't very big yet, even though I really want to pull 'em, lol. But they seem to be doing well, so I'm leaving them for now.

And these - believe it or not, these are the transplants. You're supposed to thin carrots when they get so big, but I couldn't bring myself to throw them out (you all know me by now). So I figured an experiment couldn't hurt. Replant them in an empty tub - and voila! Here they are, almost as big as the others. How cool is that?!

Still deciding what to do about the watermelon plant... *sigh*. Updates on that as they become available - ha!

:)