Hi

What "fall" ? Night temps are still in the upper 70's here with daytimes pushing 90!! In my case not enough rain, floods north and south of me while I'l 11 inches below normal . Toms and chard are hanging in there but bugs are loving it. Strawberries look peaked . tropicals are growing like weeds though !!

I blame it all on global warming or maybe the republicans ?? lol gary

Good morning everyone

Like Gary said it is been so hot! I am having a good harvest of zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, beans, carrots, greens, lettuce. Recently planted beets, peas, broccolini. 2 bunches of bananas are ripening...

Beets

Carrots

All the French tomatoes that I planted are giving me a great harvest, daily I am doing slow roasted tomatoes for the freezer...

Silvia

Just picked the first bush beans of the season and plan to pick some kale and Swiss chard in the AM. It looks like I will have to spray the beans and Swiss chard with Thuricide. I've never done that before. The spinach has been suffering this hot weather. On the other hand, just picked a huge bunch of Ice Cream (Java Blue) bananas. My family loves them!

I'm waiting until January to really start a garden. I planted a couple of tomatoes, a bell pepper and had an eggplant left from summer, but none of them are doing too well. The tomatoes are finally showing some bloom and a few fruits since it's gotten a little cooler. The bell pepper has stopped growing altogether and the eggplant is growing like mad, but has no fruit. I don't like the eggplant anyway. I thought it was a regular long Asian type, but it turned out to be one with the miniature fruits, and I feel like that is just a waste of time for me. I'm probably going to ditch it and buy seeds from a better variety for next summer. By January, I'll have my courtyard garden all set up and ready to go. Can't wait to really plant something.