During a groggy pre-work inspection of Panthy’s I accidentally photographed myself while trying to capture the nuances of my dumb salad tray.

Once I figured out how to operate my iPhone properly I turned its lens on plants that I didn’t intentionally plant but that I did intend to take pictures of.

A self-seeded ground cherry is making use of an empty pot of dirt and a tomato plant is getting started in another. Hey dummies, it’s October! Go back to where you came from!

In addition to funny-looking (but fully-ripe peppers) are new eggplant blossoms and the resulting tiny white eggplants. If I can get enough of these I can fulfill my dream to own and operate an eggplant parm slider truck. This town will have no idea what hit it.

I’m not kidding when I tell you I have better tomatoes now than I did all summer. This one is roughly the same height as the Williamsburg Savings Bank.

The intentional greens are moving along nicely. I thinned out the Tom Thumb lettuce to let the more promising candidates do their thing unencumbered.

After rinsing them quickly I jammed the entire handful into my mouth. This stuff is so fresh, it literally squeaked in my mouth. October in Panthy’s ain’t half bad.