It was a good summer in the dirt

I find it difficult to find time to blog about the garden when the days are long and the garden beckons.

Successes were the Black  Beauty eggplant, pablano and red bell peppers, Thai chilies, zucchini, lemon balm, and lemon cucumbers.... in fact I am ready to pull the lemon cucumbers because I and the entire neighborhood are tired of them.  I'm letting them get too big now to care, a bad gardener sign of 'tired'. 

Disappointments have been the tomatoes (really disappointed, but more on that later) the parsley, cilantro and green beans. 

But excited to get the winter garden into the ground!!  Hope springs eternal in the gardeners heart!!