Hey, we are going to have 86F tomorrow just south of you. My eggplants and peppers are hanging tough, and the tomatoes will get two extra heat units. I will clean this weekend.

My eggplants look outstanding and its been downright chilly this month. Still harvesting them. The peppers are fully loaded still, with a ton of new flowers. Going to move them to the greenhouse soon. Raspberries still continue to throw out more flowers. Could be picking until very late.

Everything else is gone. Tomatoes were toast by the end of August, so they got ripped.

Lots of stuff needs to come out still, but i'll wait until it gets later. Almost looking forward to a hard freeze so i can be done with most of it.

Still in the garden and still ripening for fall--turnips, savoy cabbage, kale, collards, Asian radishes, fall lettuces, beets and carrots. Sowed spring spinach yesterday.

Wow. What a difference the miles make. It was 98 degrees here yesterday. Admittedly a record, but still... I am still picking pole beans, squash, cucumbers, and the last of the tomatoes. Fall garden is up and growing under shade. I have cleaned out several beds, though, and they have assorted legumes growing in them for cover crops. I know what you mean about neat and open space. I am enjoying the cover crops all neatly growing inside their designated beds.

I've got at least another week.

Tomorrow, I am up-potting peppers and watching the weather so I can move them indoors at the last possible moment.

Tomatoes are just getting orange. Some of them will be ripe by the end of the week.

I'm picking pears and the first of the apples.

We just finished my shade house last weekend (finally!), so it is ready for the seedlings in the spring.

The zucchini has slowed down and there are not many eggplants racing the frost. Winter squash is not ready and might not make it.

We are still picking hands full of strawberries every morning, but they have definitely slowed down as the weather has gotten cooler.

Donnabaskets, it was 87 here today, so it felt like summer, but it in theory could frost almost any time. I've seen the first killing frost as early as September 22, as late as December 9th, and the typical date is around October 10th. In Michigan, we are really at the mercy of the jet stream. If it lies to our north, we stay warm, if it sags to our south, we freeze.

Yes here we are, the Summer crops pulled and done, the fall crops all part grown, the garden clean and new for the season. The high tunnel with only a few finishing touches left and My average frost date is past due. The weather reports are for High 60 to 70 F for the rest of the week. As soon as the last green beans are done they will be pulled and Garlic will be planted for next spring. peppers are still going strong and one last Roma tomato. The poor thing was broken off by a klutz (Who! me?) and is running late

Curt