Vege- tables marketed during the week include tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, pickles, squash, sweet corn, okra, eggplant, and watermelons. Beans are looking better as fields grow out. Young fields look very good. Harvest should increase in 10 days as the first bush beans start. A small volume of picking is underway with poor to fair quality and yield.
Planting is steady.
Growth and development are slow to normal. Older crop is in fair shape. The younger crop is in better condition. Planting is light. A light volume of hand harvesting is underway.