this little life of mine

We're down to just a few plants left in the garden:

Mom took out the cucumber plants, and ended up dumping the dirt and scrubbing the Earthbox because the roots of the plants were covered with some fuzzy white stuff. I didn't see it, but it sounds like a mold of some kind. Anyway, she totally cleaned out the box to get rid of whatever-it-was that killed the cucumbers. She also removed the dead zucchinis and summer squash, so we're down to bell peppers, Japanese eggplants and tomatoes.

The peppers are thick and lovely and some of them are even turning red!

The Japanese eggplant looks like it's nearing the end of its run, but it's still full of eggplants:

Both tomato plants are covered with tomatoes in various shades of green and red:

I still have some yellow squash and zucchini in the fridge and plan to combine them with some tomatoes, bell peppers and Japanese eggplant to make a (hopefully) delicious ratatouille to accompany the roast that's currently cooking slowly in the crock pot.