Mid-Sept garden update

The garden is still producing tomatoes and zucchini at a good rate, but over the last few days as nighttime temperatures have dropped to 50 or below, things have started to droop a little. The cucumber, cantaloupe, and the oldest zucchini vines have shriveled up due to a combination of temperature and powdery mildew (the mildew problem started after the hail storm in August that shredded the leaves). I had a crazy crop of zucchini from the "throwaway" plants in the back plot:


I walked into the garden this morning and found that someone had clawed and chewed a chunk out of my biggest of two cantaloupes:

It seemed fairly ripe inside- the taste was very mild and basically like one from the supermarket.


The pea plants are coming along fairly nicely. Someone is biting the tops and tender tendrils off of some of the plants, but because I planted so many seeds, loss of a few here and there to nibblers isn't a big deal.

I had to start over with the cabbage and broccoli. Last Sunday was brutally hot and the little seedlings fried under the hot sun and the black mulch sheet.