My garden looks nice this time of year. I've learned a few more lessons about gardening recently. The beefsteak tomato plant is a heirloom variety and it looks like the fungus (fusarium wilt) is going to get this plant. There is nothing that can be done to prevent or get rid of fungus. I guess next year I could try growing it in a more controlled environment (big plant pot), but I don't know if that will make a difference. (Tomato factoid: Hybrid varieties are bred to be fungus resistant.)

Next year I want to use the space more intensively so that I can have more plants and thus, more food.

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This is a good day's harvest.

The pepper plants are currently flowering.

The jalopeno plant has been very happy this summer.

The bell pepper plant looked puny for a while, but it has picked itself up and started producing.

The first sunflower has bloomed. I have about 8 or 9 more that are currently about 7 feet tall and are going to have mega-sized flowers. These are the mammoth variety.

The black background you see under the plants is weed fabric, which doubles as a mulch. Mulch is especially important during a year of drought.