Cheryl Isaak wrote:
What is your favorite garden memory of the season?

Mine has to be discovering that an expensive daylily that I thought had died
was alive and blooming this year.

Back to weeding and other fall clean up
C


The best thing about this time of year in this climate is that
everything blooms again. Heat stress shuts the garden down for a while,
but the least bit of relief, even if it's only shorter days, brings it
back loaded for bear. Flowering shrubs have a flush of new blooms, and
tomatoes and peppers set blossoms after weeks of heat-induced dormancy.
Sadly, few of any of blossoms will see fruition. Frost will kill them
before that can happen.

Daytime temps have been in the seventies and eighties here, a huge
relief from 90 and 100 degree temps of just a couple of weeks ago. Night
time temps range from the 50s to the 70s. The air smells like leaves.
Strawberry plants are almost ready for cut back and cover. There is one
lone watermelon left on a vine. Tender herbs want to move back home.