Summer is starting to wind down.

And for those of us in the U.S., this weekend is Labor Day, which typically signals the end of summer for most of us.

Although those of us who live in a southern climate kind of laugh at that, because I know we're usually wearing shorts well into October,

and those of you guys who are even more

further south than me or maybe you don't really have a true winter, Labor Day in the end of

summer really doesn't mean as much to you. But I still think that this time of year we start

to experience a transition. No matter where you live and what kind of climate you grow in there is a transition whether

you are transitioning completely out of the summer garden and you're done or you're starting to

get into your fall garden or just planning for your fall garden this is a good time for us to just

sit and chat just for a minute about summer being over or being close to

over and now what what does that mean for our gardens and one thing that I have learned to do

in the past is just to really sit back and evaluate I think that is so important and you're going to

hear more about this coming up

in the next several weeks.

We are going to be doing another garden jumpstart challenge

that we did last October.

It was hugely successful.

And I think it's so important for us to sit back

and evaluate what went well,

what didn't go so well, what do we want to change,

because all of that is really floating in our minds right now. So mark your calendar for that.

Tentatively, we're going to be doing this on October 17th through 21st. And those of you guys

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