My kitchen window is packed as full of ripening tomatoes as it can be, and an entire shelf in the fridge is filled with bowls of ripe fruit. Gotta blanch and freeze or can starting tomorrow. I had intended to do some today, but I had other chores that needed doing first. Jury duty on Tuesday (hopefully only one day, but who knows?) so I probably need to get this finished tomorrow.

Things are kind of collapsing under the weight of fruit. Tomatoes have toppled over in their cages all over the garden. Peppers look like they're decorated for christmas. The largest eggplant has several fruits, one almost ready to pick. When I first few them I remember watching it grow and wondering when to pick it. Now it's second nature, as is spotting and destroying pests at their first appearance, not after they've been around for a while.

Now I weed, water, and poke around looking for fruits, keeping in mind that this is a region with a wide variety of biting critters. Reaching down into plants is best done slowly.

SRS