Our zucchinis continue to produce. I’ve canned zucchini relish, dried some, blanched and frozen some, and we’ve had grilled zucchini and zucchini soup. We also had a pleasant surprise when the ‘gourds’ a friend gave me (that I threw into the compost pile last fall) came up in my potato patch and produced a bunch of crookneck squash that we turned into a delicious squash-cheese soup! Yum! I made enough to freeze. The tomatoes in my raised beds have not done well because of the extended weeks of heat and no rain in July. Meanwhile, the tomato starters I stuck in the ground because I didn’t want to throw them out are doing well. I’m glad I planted them! Our cukes are failing, as are the Chinese long beans. Our bush beans gave us a nice crop for the freezer and we are going to try doing a second planting of those and the snow peas. Overall, we did ok for novuses. We learned a lot for next years garden. The two beds in which I used vermiculite (Mel’s Mix) definitely did better than the rest. I’ll add vermiculite to the rest of our raised beds next spring.
Squash bugs got my cukes,but my Chinese long beans are doing good.They look like they are dieing but just keep putting out beans. That's all the wife wants to plant next year for beans.