I plan to espalier two fig trees. But I’m not sure about plum trees. I might also get a Green gage plum. I had one in the Bay Area and it was so good.
Stopped at my community garden today. Haven’t got out there for over a week. My zinnias have taken over! They are gorgeous but some other things are having trouble getting sun. Picked a few banana peppers, a good amount of green beans and a couple of beets. I notice that everyone’s tomatoes have struggled - I see plant after plant of mini tomatoes (grape or millions or otherwise) but loads of them are green - it’s September! They should be thinning out and have already turned red! Not sure how many will get to the red point.
Black Cherry tomatoes are awesome. My catalog folks are pushing garlic, to be planted now for next spring.
My volunteer tomatoes are so tasty. I think it’s the Stupice variety. We’ve been spoiled here in California, I’ve been eating home grown tomatoes for months now. I hate to buy store tomatoes. Tasteless.
Dumped last of my tomato plants in the bin yesterday, hen I stopped at farm stand on mu way home from market and bought some delicious looking ones for only $5 or so. So much easier than tending the ones I planted. 
Alas, I am a bit tired of gardening. The unexpected late summer heat has really hurt everything but the eggplants and chillies. Go figure. Clipped a few more Cherokee Purple and Azchoyka tomatoes but have decided that I just don’t care for their flavor; too much acid. Still have a bounty of eggplant and Hungarian and Jalapeno chilies that I’m going to give to relatives. May plant collards and beets this weekend.
^^But you’re still planting! So you must still have SOME “umph” left!!! 
Tired of gardening? I’m just getting started. I’ve watermelon the size of a baseball. Peas are coming up nicely and one volunteer tomato plant. But this looks like a big tomato and not the Stupice kind.
And we have our first rain. Some areas in Southern Cal have flash flooding.
Bring this thread up to say I have 4 big watermelons in my backyard. They grew fast because of the rain. I took a chance to plan them in August and now I have four of them. Do a little dance. There is a heat wave here, hopefully they are maturing, ready to eat, if not I might have to wait til Dec.
Still getting the ragged end of a great tomato crop. My peppers were good until something got to the plants and ate the leaves (my guess is a mutant deer that bypassed all my protections!). My cucumbers were good for a brief patch, but because of the miserable spring I planted them late, and the heat killed them. I am trying to see if I can get a fall crop of them before the frosts hit, would be nice to be able to make more pickles:)
Started tomato plants from seed sometime in August. They are now going crazy and have flowers! I can’t wait for a late second harvest. We’ve been in a tomato lull for at least 3 months now.
Started pumpkins a bit late. We’ll see if we get any or if the vine just takes over everything. We have quite a few watermelons. It’s a variety called Moon and Stars and they’re supposed to be oblong but they look more round right now.
Are you sure they are not the ‘Glass Ball’ variety, rather than Moon & Stars? The two can look very similar in markings but Glass Ball is very spherical, not oblong.
Still getting green beans and the green pepper is forming new peppers. This despite cooler days and some nights dipping to 50 or lower.
I just picked some cuties and mandarin off the trees, they are sweet enough for my husband. The heat wave makes them hot. I also picked our first water melon, it was good but not sugary sweet. At the dream of living of the land is finally realized, well somewhat, not 100%. Next year I will try to grow Frankenstein pumpkin.
The dream of living off the land…yeah, I get it.
There was a British show about it. I think it was hilarious. It’s called the Good Life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life_(1975_TV_series)
@LakeWashington - the tag said moon and stars but they don’t look like the picture so maybe you’re right!
Saturday I went to the farmer’s market and bought some legit garlic (german variety) and though I cleaned my garden out the week before (square foot garden), I planted the garlic - have SO been wanting to give garlic a try! I planted it around the edge so that it won’t interfere with other planting in the spring. People at my community garden seem to have a lot of great results with garlic!
Otherwise, I’m just waiting for the mulch to be dropped off and then the garden will be covered with 6 inches of mulch and put to bed for the winter!!! 
@abasket – do you always cover your garden with mulch for the winter? Is this something you recommend? I’ve never done it, but then again I’m NOT an experienced gardener with results to prove it 
The mulching is something the community garden I belong to requires us to do - they ask for 6 inches of mulch and they provide it. After one year of winter mulch I would recommend it - the mulch underneath breaks down and enriches the soil and I believe somehow it is helpful to control any bugs that might be in the soil - or preserves the worms that winter there!!!