SO lovely!
Aarghh 
started out with 2x butternut squash and 2x pumpkin. Lost 2 then found the snails had eaten another one. I need to finish my tub of yoghurt tonight so I can build a fortress around the last oneā¦
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Small sampling of lettuce and snap peas freshly picked from the garden! @GeekyBookworm , yum!
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Yum! We harvested the last of our peas yesterday. I am thinking about making a creamy pasta with ham and peas.
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Our peas just started producing lots off yummy peasā¦just in time for a week long vacation. Oh well, we will pick and eat on our way to Maine!
And the sweet potatoes came in and are in the ground. Kohlrabi, cucumbers, beets ate up. Iāll have to go check on the carrots, hopefully they ate breaking ground.
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Harvested some jalapenoes and my first green pepper! It is about the size of a softball and perfect!
I have loads of tomatoes but it seems the squirrels and ground hogs are coming up on the deck and helping themselves! Lots of flowers on the cucumber vines but no cucumbers yet.
Everything is growing in containers because our yard is basically sand.
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So gorgeous!
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The lettuce is almost done, the squash is starting to grow, as is the tomato! We decided to pull the onion and try pumpkins, and we have leaves that sprouted! We are having such a good time.
Our favorite has been the snap peas. We need to plant more next year.
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I used the last of our snap peas tonight in a shrimp stir fry. Love them!
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Next year I am growing squash just for the blossomsā¦yum! Everything looks lush and green!
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ā¦and delicious! I love a pan of stir fried squash blossoms!
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I didnāt know you could eat that part!
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You should google itā¦there are lots of recipes for blossomsā¦even daylily blossoms are edible.
You have to pick the male blossoms of else you wonāt get fruit. There are videos that explain thatā¦I used to just grow a lot more than I needed to be sure I didnāt mess up.
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Woo hoo!
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I got a VERY late start on my āgardenā this year, but itās partly because of the weather, partly because I was in TOTAL sloth mode once school ended, and partly because I planted a pumpkin patch at school (I got a grant and have a patch about 20 X 30 feet and itās planted with about a dozen plants). There were some challenges to getting it started, and I had to go back and rip out the irrigation tubing and start it again because the guy sold me the wrong thing (my gut was telling me it was wrong, but he insisted it would work). So, after several trips to multiple Home Depot stores, I do have plants! I didnāt thin them out soon enough (itās an hour + drive round trip, so I only get there once a week), so I had to yank out a bunch of healthy plants (no room to transplant them). But, Iām hoping that I end up with some pumpkins in the end!
One of my co-workers gave me some tomato, pepper, and cucumber plants (seed starting didnāt happen for me this year), and I finally planted them up last week in some self-watering 5 gallon buckets. I need some tomato cages, so hopefully I can still find some in stock! Even if I donāt get any produce from them because of the late start, itāll be an experiment to see how the self watering system works (and to see how well I can stay on top of things).
And, @Lynx, to combat the chipmunks (I might be in a similar situation soon), you could stick some stakes in the ground and wrap some tulle around it. I saw a video about it (I canāt find the link) but apparently, when critters try to climb it, their claws get caught in the tulle and it freaks them out, so they avoid it. I bought it in bulk online for a pretty decent price.
I live on the edge of the city, and we get a surprising variety of wildlife. I just saw a groundhog this morning! Besides squirrels and chipmunks, we get deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, skunks, foxes, and every once in a while a coyote. And, not too long ago, a mama bear and her cubs were in the park a couple of streets away!
Iām planning to order some raised beds, in addition to the tower gardens I have (that I didnāt get plantedā¦ maybe fall crops?). I donāt have a large area to plant in (the houses are close, and what little back yard I do have is very shaded), so I have to confine it to an area towards my front yard, between my house and the neighborās house. Itās not level, so I need to work on thatā¦
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I am growing all of the veggies I have been showing in large buckets and pots. The biggest issue is the heat, so I have to water all the time. The tomatoes still got burned but luckily, it did not hurt them producing tomatoes! I have a lot of peppers to pick as well but so far, no cucumbersā¦lots of vines and flowers, so maybe soon!
You could plant lettuce, onions, kale, and maybe a cabbage or twoā¦that is what I am going to try in my containers (not the cabbageā¦no room!)ā¦
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Iām compiling a list of fall crops, so Iāll add them to it 
I have a tower garden that got hit with spider mites last year, so I didnāt plant it up. But, I think I should be okay to plant it with fall crops. And, I can plant kale in the self watering buckets.
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If you come up with other ideas, let me knowā¦I am making plans now for when the tomatoes die out.
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