After a sleepy spell, the roses woke up in time to greet autumn.

Made it an unnecessarily difficult job. Welcome to the jungle. This one’s for the compost. Let nature do things her way. I’ll do them mine.

Here’s a whole tomato that had sat on the vine a little long. I plopped it in a ramekin and covered it with plastic wrap, fully intending to get it labeled and into a uniform baby food/seed saving jar with proper cover and label.
I didn’t get that far, but I think the mold and tomato may have done the work on their own, nature’s way. Time to harvest!

Chalk it up to inexperience, and not enough cold water, these little guys in the front got sprung.