A Second Crop

We gave up on our tomatoes.  In August our temperatures never get low enough for tomatoes to set fruit, they will flower and flower but never produce a tomato.  Couple that with a historic drought and it didn't seem worth the water to keep them going. 

Ever since we started our garden people have told us you can grow fall tomatoes in Texas but we have never tried.  But apparently this year our tomatoes had a different idea.  The vines don't look so great...

But if you look closely you will see...

At lease half a dozen green tomatoes hanging on the vines!  We have not been watering so they are on the small size but dang, those are some hardy tomatoes.  Now, we have to wait and see if they actually ripen.

We also have something else surprising growing in the yard.  Please note the dead grass (remember historic drought).  We are pretty sure it's a watermelon vine.  I guess that's what happens when you spit seeds in your backyard and then don't mow.  I'm sure we won't get any fruit off of this but it still makes me happy to see it growing. 

Who would have thought I would have such a positive garden update in November?  All I can say is Sasha, we're not in Missouri any more.