Late Summer Garden Status

The garden in mid-August is a mix of harvest victories, new growth, and hungry weeds.  Cucumbers and winter squash are sprawling out of

the garden's borders and taking over the yard.  Pollinators are everywhere.  When I water in the morning, slow-moving bees groggy on pollen rise out of yellow flowers.

The melon patch is pictured above.  Watermelons on the left, cantaloupes on the right.  These were planted about a month ago, and they are doing great.  Lots of little fruit have formed.  The melons are on the beds that previously had snow peas and sugar snaps.

The potatoes have all been harvested, so these two beds were freed up for some fall crops: spinach, red mustard greens, arugula, radishes, onions, and kohl rabi.  I'm unsure if the onions and kohl rabi will have enough time to form bulbs before frost hits in late October, but they're both fairly cold hardy, and edible at any stage, so there no real risk there.

This is my compost pile, dominated by volunteer tomatoes, crookneck pumpkins, and a lone giant red aramanth.  In the background are my two fig trees.  Lots of figs on them, but nothing ripe yet.

This is an odd seedbed.  I re-planted it a month ago, and a number of things failed to germinate, or just didn't germinate well.  The weeds took over until last weekend when Mrs. Rabbit got her garden zen on.  I planted the gaps with bok choy.  Leftover from the ealier planting are radish, aramanth, and a few beets.  The bok choy has already sprouted.

Here's the asgaragus patch in the foreground, and our pole beans in the back.  The pole beans are producing ridiculous amounts of beans.  We had beans 3 or 4 times last week, and there's still 6 or 7 pounds in the fridge.

Current on the garden tasks list include weeding the summer squash bed and remembering to save seeds...in addition to the ongoing harvesting and watering.