We finally have cooler weather, and we had a couple of nice rainfall amounts a week or two ago. But it is still severe drought here. The fall weather has helped some things perk up - I'm swimming through the dense okra this year (last year it was taller, more spread out, but I also started it much earlier). Eggplant are happy now that it is cooler and has rained. I see a few small tomatoes starting, but so far the Super Fantastic that should produce tennis ball-sized fruits is turning out cherry-sized fruits. Early in the spring I got a few normal sized fruits, so it's an interesting result of drought but I hope they go back to bigger 'maters.

I haven't dug the sweet potatoes yet, the vines were looking pretty awful with the heat, but now it's cool they're are happy again so I'll let them grow till we get closer to the first frost. I have some small acorn squash (first time I've grown those, and these are from some seeds I saved.) Chard is beginning to grow.

I have a greenhouse now, rescued from a friend's house that has been foreclosed. It's a plastic building that I dismantled, moved, and rebuilt in my back yard. I'm looking forward to a more organized way to start my bedding plants, and I'll go to the trouble to order the seeds I want instead of hoping they might turn up in the feed store, or having to buy bedding plants and then hope they're healthy. Any seed sites or catalogs you want to recommend?

SRS