Today I sprayed my fruit trees with All Seasons Horticultural & Dormant Spray Oil. I have two peach trees, only one of which has produced excellent white flesh fruit (three seasons ago--the other has not yet produced). I have one apple tree, a faithful producer. We have consumed its delicious fruit in many forms: raw, in crisps and pies, in sauce form. I have an Italian plum tree, which produced a miserable six plums three years ago and hasn't produced any fruit since. I have an apricot tree that has never produced. And I have a baby cherry tree, too young to produce. This tree grew in my compost bin and I transplanted it this past summer. It is now maybe thirty inches high. Each spring all these trees have beautiful flower, which then fall off, and the leaves appear distressed, badly curled. We'll see if this treatment will cure whatever problem these trees (except the apple tree) have.
My house plants are doing well. Here are two pots with basil and two pots with amaryllis. What doesn't show in the picture is that a persimmon is growing out of the higher basil pot. I regularly put pits or seeds in the soil, with decent results. Also growing there a second persimmon, and a citrus--I think it's a tangerine. I have also put in the soil some comice pear seeds. We'll see.

Here is a favorite of mine, whose name I can't come up with at this time:

Life goes on.

The last vegetable Hurrah!
Near-freezing temperatures are in the forecast, and I decided to collect what's left in the garden, except for a few squashes. Here it is! Miniature cantaloupe, miniature zucchini, weak-sauce beans (a disappointing performer this summer), tomatoes, huge specimens of zucchina lunga. I made practically no use of zucchina lunga this summer: one dish of tenerumi pasta, and one ratatouille dish. Both good, I must say.

The picture confirms the success of the tomato crop. The largest of the heirloom tomatoes pictured weighs in at 1 pound. I hope they all ripen. The green tomatoes are in front of the shop window.
The apple crop has also been excellent, and we have made apple sauce, apple crisp, apple pie, and eaten the fruit. Don't have a picture of the apples, but I have one of some of our grapes:

Tomatoes
This year my most successful crop was tomatoes. My two largest heirloom tomatoes, so far, grew to weigh 567 g (1.4 oz) and 449 g (15.8 oz) respectively.

The other tomatoes aren't too shabby, either, and I have made several batches of tomato sauce, already in the freezer. More fruit is still on the vine.

Now it's time to start harvesting apples and grapes.

Tomato, Eggplant
My largest tomato weighs in at 14.6 oz, here viewed top and bottom:

The oldest of the three eggplants is the (smaller) yellow brother. What caused its strange color? Its texture was thicker than its brothers', but we ate it anyway.

Today, with the help of a helpful U of Az extension Master Gardener, I learned about the problem with the beans in the greenhouse: spider mites.

Fungus? Virus?
All plants in the greenhouse are suffering from something. I want to try to find out what the problem is. The leaves are blotched, as in this poor quality picture:

I have removed the damaged eggplant leaves, but the fruit seems healthy:

The tomatoes are of two colors, but this doesn't come out in the photo:

Watermelon
The time has come for my midget watermelon to be cut open. Here it is with friends, before and after the operation:

I ate some of it, but it had mushy texture and little taste. The remains now are making compost. I have, however, saved some seeds, hoping to grow another plant or two next summer.

Heirloom Tomatoes
My tomatoes are doing well this year, and they are good sized, as shown here against the background of the chain link fence: