Fall Color

Summer may be over, but the sidewalk garden is still ticking along.

The asters which have looked plain all year are suddenly showing their delicate little flowers.

A couple of the rose bushes are still putting out new buds that are so intensely colorful that my phone’s camera doesn’t really know what to do with them.

The tomato plants are dying back, but throwing the last of their energy into ripening just a few more fruits.

And the giant sunflower has decided to go out with a bang.

Sweet Potato Vines

Someone left a sprouted sweet potato lying on the dirt in one of the garden planters this spring, so I dug it in just to the level of the surface and it’s been very happy, with four vines coming off of it, each six feet long and happily tangled in the fence trellis.

I’ll need to do some research to know how to over-winter it — do I just leave it in place and assume it will die back and resprout in the spring?