I should have waited another week to pick the watermelon.  It wasn’t ripe.  I do have another one growing.  Maybe this time I’ll know better.  I don’t know if I’ll try growing them again next year or go for a small seedless variety.

     The tomatoes are turning red now that we’ve had a few cool nights.  In another day, at least two will be ready for picking.  Next week I can harvest the two eggplants in the back garden.  Yum, fried eggplant is one of my favorites.  The first one I’ll fry and the next one I’ll grill.  Yeah, sometimes I need to cook healthy stuff.  DH will only eat them fried so I’ll share the grilled ones with G.  There will be many more to pick after that because the potted eggplant plant is loaded with them.  (Next year all the eggplants will go into pots.)  G and I can enjoy some moussakka and other dishes with the others since DH quickly tires of eggplant.  He can have hamburgers or something.

     Even after giving a lot away, I have so many sweet Hungarian and banana peppers I’ve begun to put them in almost everything I cook.  They are so mild in flavor you hardly can tell they are there.  Now the cherry peppers, Anchos, poblanos, and pimento peppers are starting to ripen.  It’s a good thing I love peppers. 

     I have one good-sized cucumber in the fridge and a gazillion tiny ones on the vines.  Last night I cut one cucumber into strips and munched them down, they made a lovely fresh, light snack.