It's been feeling a bit like Fall recently - until today, the last full day of Summer. Today the heat is back, and it seems that summer won't be giving up without a fight. I'm pretty sure the fight is futile, though. I've seen trees that are already starting to change, and my garden definitely believes summer is over. All the tomato plants are dried up and dead. They gave me lots of tomatoes first, though! I've been getting quite a few green beans, but they're all about done, too, and the zucchini gave up a while back. I've still got some peppers on the plants, and the chard is growing like crazy. Chard doesn't seem to mind the end of summer, and keeps on growing through the Fall.
It really is amazing to see how tiny seeds and little plants can grow so much and produce food. All in the space of one summer. Really. Amazing. All the wrinkle creams mentioned at http://www.consumerpricewatch.org may claim to be amazing, but they've got nothing on my garden. It does have me wondering - fight the natural order of things with wrinkle creams and anti-aging lotions, or age gracefully like the garden?
