How does the garden grow?

It's a jungle overrun by winter squash, climbing, creeping, taking over the corner gardens. Our tomato plants are full of plump green tomatoes--we're just waiting for them to finally ripen. I harvested our first crop of green beans, enough for two meals. With everything started so late, I'll be glad to get whatever food we can this year.

I had my third driving lesson on the tractor yesterday. Dad had me harrowing, up and down, up and down, chopping up the grasses that grew in during our absence. John will plant a cover crop and then next spring, we'll plow that under and start anew. I told him there was no point in planting a fall garden unless he planned on fattening up a deer for our winter meat! We need to build a fence and decorate the borders with pie plates.