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August 31, 2020
The dahlias, the raised beds, and beans
We spent a lot of time in August trying to preserve our tomato crop, which some critter took a strong liking to.
We wrapped the first raised bed in plastic and in fencing but found that the invader would tunnel under the barrier
and eat half a ripening tomato every night. Very frustrating. We took to ripening the best of them on the porch.

Inside the tarp there were two layers of fencing, one plastic, one metal.

We finally took it all apart to started over.

We settled on this after 2 weeks of experimenting. Next year we will anticipate this problem.

We have had pretty good luck getting fruit like this to ripen. We've never had so much trouble with our tomatoes before

All the raised beds

August 12 Bed 1		The raised beds Aug. 31 Bed 1
Bed 2		Bed 2
Bed 3		Bed 3
Bed 4		Bed 4
Bed 5		Bed 5

The beans

The beans have been very reliable producers (end of July, just above, Aug. 27 below).

They are, however, hard to find amid the vines, but as the vines dry up, it's getting easier (and of August).