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The jalapeno plants seem to be doing pretty well, and are recovering nicely after getting solidly munched by the tobacco hornworms.

Haven’t spotted any more hornworms on them recently, but there was this little green lizard hanging out on a jalapeno. Hope he’s finding lots of bugs to eat.

Looks like there will be a bunch of jalapenos to harvest in a few more weeks.

The butternut squash plants have been struggling lately and it looks like there might be just one plant left that’s still sending out runners.

Butternut squash plant in the raised bed

There have been a few attempted new butternut squashes, but they all ended up shrivelling up before getting very large. Might be time to pull the plug on this batch.

This mystery plant started growing in the bed next to the jalapenos a few months ago. I was curious to see what it would be, so I let it grow. The leaves look like maple leaves except for the serrated edges so I don’t think it’s a maple (I’d be very surprised if it was).

Mystery plant growing in the raised bed. Possibly a sweetgum tree.

A Google Lens image search suggests this is a sweetgum tree, which seems plausible. I know there are a few of these growing in other yards around here

Late in July, the ornamental cherry tree out in the front yard surprised us with a big display of leaves on the lower branches. Then Tropical Storm Debby came, dumped a ton of rain on us. After that, all of the leaves shriveled up and dried up. I was starting to think that maybe all the water drowned the tree and that it was done for.

Dead leaves on the ornamental cherry tree — Dried up leaves on a drowned tree

Last week, the tree surprised me with some new leaf growth. Seems like the little tree might recover after all.

New leaf growth on the ornamental cherry tree

The fig plants continue to do well, and there are a bunch of figs now. They’re still pretty hard, and seems like it will be a few more months before any might be ready for harvesting.

We got back from vacation a few days ago to a veritable explosion of roses. They’re a few days past their prime now, but I was surprised at how many of them there were. Time for a bit of pruning I think.

A rose bush full of blooming roses — Full of roses

The butternut squash plants are still growing and spilling out of the raised bed, but aren’t producing as many squashes as they were. I suppose as long as they’re still growing, I’ll leave them alone.

The jalapeno plants grew a ton over the last couple of weeks, and I spotted some pretty good size peppers on them.

I think the biggest grower over the past month has been the fig. There are two fig plants there and they’re kind of swamping the blackberries now. That’s a lot of progress from how they looked in late June. I’m thinking now that I might have put them a little too close to each other. Seemed like plenty of space when they were smaller.