Lovely picture, Margaret. It seems remarkable that after such a record-setting summer, we are having a fairly normal September. I won't complain. The heat was exhausting. Something different from our usual Junuary was a huge kick start!

I made some mistakes, early and late. My plants are rather spent, nearly past tense, almost kaput. Some, like the peppers, are unloading! Having gardens in more than one place has been "educational," right along. Late-planted summer squash has behaved normally and productively in one garden. In another location, mildew is steamrolling 'em! Those young plants look almost as bad as their older brothers and sisters. Shoulda sprayed them to slow that mildew.

I've got lots of green tomatoes, too. Trying to protect some plants from wind by setting them on the north side of a sunflowers ... well, as you have noted, the season isn't over yet!

Steve