Fall gardening in Texas is not for the faint of heart, but doing such will quite possibly make you faint. I put in the fall tomatoes today. It’s hard to find a day that isn’t hot and muggy even at 8 in the morning. I’d start earlier, but that is when I exercise and it’s no joy walking a mile an a half most mornings in early September Texas weather either.

I put in some nice green onions–they’ll probably be ready in two to three months depending on the weather. I planted two of the tomato plants that I started–back at the end of July. Believe me, I didn’t feel much like doing starters when it was 100 degrees. They have to be kept indoors, well-watered and babied along.

Don’t ask me why I bother because mostly I don’t have an answer. I love gardening in the spring when everything seems so fresh and new. Mostly in the fall, I dread it–tilling the earth at this time of the year isn’t that easy. The thing of it is…I love getting fall tomatoes. I really, really like a nice batch of snap peas or snow peas. This year I did green onions almost year round and it was very nice to run outside and pick them without having to go to the grocery. Cilantro is only a fall/winter/very early spring crop here, so I put some seeds down for that also. Salsa is just good year round and that citrus taste of cilantro just brings it over the top.

Okay, enough about gardening. This weekend, since all but one tomato plant is in, I’ll be reading. I’ve put off reading for a month now to get some rewrites done and it’s killing me.

On tap:

One Jump Ahead by Mark Van Name.

I would have listed the back book blurb, but Mark doesn’t seem to have one on his website…