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Got good control of powdery mildew this year, so had quite a few acorn squash and lemon cucumbers. (love those things!!)

Unfortunately, lost many tomatoes to Late blight. It totally took me by surprise, it was almost overnight it started killing plants, and the worse thing is, it infects the fruit as well, you can’t even pick them green and let them ripen, they’re already infected. Late blight is what caused the Irish potato famine.

Surprisingly, it didn’t affect my potatoes at all, and I got about 30 pounds of various types, reds, russets, fingerlings.

My New Zealand spinach is still going very strong. Good in salads.

Peas are done. The stragglers on the vines are hardening for next years seeds, same with the blue lake pole beans, I’m gonna end up with probably a pound of dried beans for seed next year.

I am always most successful if I use seeds from plants that have done well here in the past.