Dog Days of Summer

Hey everyone...hope you all are well. It's been a while since I've updated so I wanted to show you what I have left in the garden. Everything has pretty much played out except for the watermelon and eggplant. Tonight I picked my first watermelon from the garden. I was so worried that it wouldn't but I was pleasantly suprised...shocked actually. I have about a dozen in various stages of growth, so hopefully they will be as good as this one was. I planted two varieties: Charleston Gray and Jubilee. The one show below is the Charleston Gray, 25-30 lbs.

The other thing I've been working is strawberry fig preserves. My mom and I have canned more than a dozen jars. I've more of a Bama Apple Jelly kind of girl, but I've discovered that the strawberry fig preserves are fantastic on toast. That's about all I have going on right now. If it will every rain, I will be able to till the section of the garden where the corn was. I went to the feed store this weekend and bought some Lima pole beans and I'm ready to get those in the ground for the fall crop. I'm also trying to decide and plan what to put in the ground this fall. So far, all I've decided on is turnips. Any ideas?