My yard is awash in the fragrance of Meyer lemon flowers. 
We are getting the remnants of Ian, so luckily they didnāt get blown away (some of my flower pots not so lucky). I have attempted to manually fertilize them so they can bear fruit. I saved a little fuzzy bee today who was sitting disoriented on a sidewalk (I think struggling with the wind). Maybe sheāll return the favor and give me a hand too.
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Sweet!
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After months of constant wet foliage, from heavy dew, rain, coupled with humidity over 95%, the tomatoes are toast, except for some struggling cherry and a Currant Tomato. The C. chinense peppers are fine though; good Caribbean genetics! All will perish soon though. Ian brought too much rain and itās getting cold. Itās 50 degrees F right now, not good for tomatoes or peppers.
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2 Ā° C this morning.
I planted a ton of fall greens so we will see how this month goes. The kale can stay in the garden all winter and the Swiss Chard came back after winter last spring. Iām treating my greens section of the garden as a perennial garden, and going to keep tending it as long as I can this year, which is a new thing for me.
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With a nod to @mig, Iām still trying to out-gazpacho my garden. As long as weāre getting all three peppers, cukes and toms, Iāll keep making it. We harvested a good supply of red onion this year, also.
So far, Iām keeping on top of it, mostly because we have finally learned not to plant twice as many tomatoes as we could possibly manage. For the kitchen garden this year, we planted 5 slicing tomato plants and 7 grapette plants, and either gave away or ruthlessly disposed of all the other extra starts.
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Some dandelion greens (planted for greens, from a packet) and cilantro . Might have frost this week.
Most basil had a touch of frost.
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I think I gotta make one more small gazpacho batchā¦
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This is the year my husband decided he likes gazpacho. 
Good for him, less for me.
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Hereās a funny thing. Iāve grown cherry toms, and the reason besides they are delicious is because they start to product faster - a boon in PNW with our shorter warm season. A couple, three years ago, I bought a packet of green cherry toms (or maybe they are grape, cause they are kind of large) from Territorial Seeds. One baddy is that it is super hard to tell when theyāre ripe. Unlike a Green Zebra, which actually turns a bit yellow when ripe, these cherry toms go from green white to green green. So you never know. The other baddy is that they take for-literally-ever to ripen. Iāve had a ton of 8-10oz tomatoes grow ripen and be picked while these 2" divas are still clearly unripe. I tried to look up green cherry toms (I used up the seed packet and threw it out) on Territorialās website to see if I could get more insight into this varietal, and theyāve stopped selling them. Thereās not even a ghost of a mention on the website. So I am just stumped. What in heck are these cherry toms that wonāt ripen long past when their much bigger cousins are good to go? Not nec a question for @MunchkinRedux but in general.
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I donāt have any insight into your green tomatoes, but as a side mention: Iāve had really good luck with Ruby Crush, also from Territorial. Theyāre not exotic, but prolific and very sweet!
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I saw your cute little red cherries. I personally love a sungold and havenāt grown any for awhile, so I may revert next year. Iām also intrigued by some purple/black cherries that Iāve seen local folks post on the facebook gardening forums.
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Iām down a tomato ripening rabbit hole today.
Are all of your cherries indeterminate varieties? I donāt have any experience growing green tomatoes, but the green cherries Iāve found seem to have q range of days to maturity, from 55 to 85.
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My 3 green cherry (or grape) tomato plans are all indeterminate. The seeds were planted in April. The tomatoes arenāt ripe yet for the most part. Itās ridiculous. Iāve gotten about 12 total off of 3 plants that looked a bit greener than the rest, and I left them on the counter for 3-5 days before eating. But the plants have 100 or more tomatoes on them now that donāt look close.
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Todayās pick was so miniscule, that rather than dig into the fridge for the appropriate green bags for storage, I just ate everything:
1 carrot
12 shelling peas
1 small cucumber
As many small tomatoes as I wanted
Having grazed in the garden, I see no need to make a salad with dinner tonight.
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Thanks for reminding me. I have to buy some seeds.
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It has been a decidedly not-great year for both of my gardens. I got a very nice bean crop and a pretty good sungold crop and plenty of herbs. But most of the other stuff - peppers, lettuce, peas, big tomatoes, cucumbers - produced very sparsely. Hereās my lone balcony Black Krim with some balcony basil (which did very well) in the only garden caprese salad I was able to make, and not until today.
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Youāre in the PNW, correct? Itās been a relative disaster for all of us. Only by the grace of an unusually warm September/October did we get much gardening satisfaction. Iām already dreaming of next year.
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