This picture has a bunch of stories to tell:

 

Usually by the end of the summer, the marigolds get tall, then flop over and break.  But these marigolds got planted after I harvested all the dill from this end of the garden.  So they are still fairly short and still pretty.

 

You can also see that beautiful basil behind them.

 

That leafless stem in the walk path?  That is what's left of a butternut squash.  I picked the squash, and the baby deer have gotten into the garden, and eaten all the squash leaves.  They nibbled the Swiss chard too, but Jon put some wire cages around them.  INSIDE THE GARDEN!!!

 

One more cool thing:  at the beginning of summer we put a bunch of dry leaves on the right hand walk path to keep down the weeds next to the fence, and it worked.  We didn't have to weed this walkway at all.  Guess what we're going to do with all those hickory leaves when they fall.  Cover all the walk paths, and save ourselves some work next summer.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!