Sunday, September 20, 2009

The end of the gardening season

Even though we haven't had any frost yet, the vegetables look pretty dead. The tomatoes and peppers are wilting. The strawberries from last year are already drying up. Only this year's growth is healthy.

Beans are drying up before they can grow pods, same with the peas. I'm not sure what is going on. The only thing we were able to successfully grow this year were the peppers.

The jujube tree in the front yard already lost all its leaves. The quince is still holding strong. The apricots look tired and so does the plum and peach tree. Even the grass is turning yellow. The grass only looked lush green for a week in late July when I returned from my roadtrip.

The small acacias are all growing new leaves and should be fine for another month.

The only thing that is doing well are the root vegetables. Even the potatoes seem to be in hibernation.

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