August 2008: In the beds.

Here's the big picture. If you look closely, you can see from the front-most bed I had started to lay down about an inch of compost. It's good stuff. The plants you see are either from seeds I had planted b/c they were supposed to handle the heat, or they were small transplants that I'd bought at the nursery. (I'm far from perfecting the art of germination, so sometimes buying transplants are a much better bet for me.) There were actually a few other plants that were slow to mature in the spring and had made it through the hardest part of summer, so I just left them there hoping they'd have a jump start and set fruit once it started cooling down in the fall.
Two rows of young tomato transplants to the right, a row of peppers and tomatilloes (alternating) to the left.
A few tomatillo plants didn't come of age until the mid-summer, so I just left them there for the fall. They managed all right.

Likewise, a watermelon plant leftover from the spring/summer.

You can hardly see these, but it's little corn plants, rutabaga seedlings, and squash, with the tomatoes in the distance.

All the corn coming up. The corn eventually met an untimely death, one of the few things that did worse in the fall than it did in the spring.

Just a different perspective on what I've already included.

New watermelon plants. The one on the left would eventually produce my only full-sized watermelon. Well, it wasn't really full-sized, but it was close enough in my eyes.

Okay, after having put these pictures here and narrated the captions, I've realized this was a boring post (unlike all the other ones, which have been thrill rides through the dynamic world of vegetable gardening). My apologies, but it at least lays the groundwork for future posts re: the fall produce.