Going all out

After a quick tour of the gardens last evening, I turned on the afterburners and harvested some potatoes, tomatoes and collards for dinner, then sprayed the cole crops for cabbage worms and flea beetles, then fertilized and cultivated last weeks planting of lettuce and broccoli, then finally planted some spinach and turnips by the last of the late evening light.  That is the absolute peak of the gardening season.  From now on, we should start sliding toward weeding and harvesting and finally to only harvesting.  It's a bittersweet time, and I always hate to make the final planting of the season.  I'll probably keep planting spinach, arugula and turnips for a couple of weeks, even though some of it will never be harvested.