Gone Feral In Idaho

We harvested the first two of our rouge vif d'etampes pumpkins. The vines had been badly eaten by squash beetles and were drying up. We finally started getting cucumbers and zucchinis. These are heirloom sweet zukes, deliketesse cukes, and another I don't remember the name (good thing we write this stuff down).  Some salsa peppers, strawberries, black cherry toms, a super steak sandwich tom, and some of our burned sweet peppers. None of our sweet pepper plants are doing well. They are producing well, but all the fruits are getting burned in our intense sunlight.  Here we have jalapenos and sweet cherry 100 hybrids. The sweet cherry plants have not done well this year.  Hope for the future- the Christmas pole Lima beans are starting to produce.  This year's melon, and early Minnesota variety are starting out well.  Rosa Bianca eggplant is ripening. The thorn less Triple Crown Blackberry plants got trimmed back. The new lat...

The forecast for tonight had frost warnings so we did a big harvest that is taking up every windowsill in part of the house.   We've got tons of tomatoes and hot peppers.  For the peppers above we have L-R: Salsa Carnival Mix, Zavory, and on the right are cayenne.    I picked the one and only Chantarais type melon of the season as the vine was browning and the leaves were getting crunchy.   We covered the raised beds for potential frost tonight. The east garden is looking ragged.  We won't be doing Brussels sprouts next year as they take forever to grow , we haven't gotten a single sprout, and no matter what I try they end up swarmed in aphids.  The scarlet runner beans were way to hairy to taste good, but we will use them a dried beans for chili.  The beans are quite striking in their coloring.   I moved all the containers off the front porch to make room for the witch.  I kinda like them here.