My garden is overgrown with all sorts of vegetables and flowers. I love it!!

My tomatoes are tall – 15 feet or so. Peppers, at least 5 feet tall. Squashes, watermelon, and beans are rambling all over. I’m harvesting, canning, and pickling almost every day. And weeding, staking, planting fall crops, and pulling past summer crops.

Gradually the summer is moving towards fall. We have temps of 90F coming tomorrow, but that seems like it may be our last hot day. Our nights are cooling off. All we need is a bit of rain. Hurricane Hermine brought us about 0.3 inches. Nice, but not really very much. I think we’re still near 10 inches short here this year.

I think the dryness and heat have helped to make this a really good year for many vegetables – as long as we’ve been able to irrigate. My tomatoes are great and many other nearby gardeners tell me the same. Lots of big fruits and low amounts of fungal diseases. Also peppers, eggplants, melons, cukes, squashes and other warm weather vegetables are doing great.