2nd season of gardening

I recently planted a second crop of my garden on August 4, I believe it was. It was nearly too late. The weeds grew so high while we had a rainy season, and there was no way to get my little tiller going in the garden for more than about two feet without it clogging with grass and weeds. So, we got out the good-old roundup and sprayed it, waited a few days, raked up the dead stuff, tilled, and replanted. So now I have one row of young green beans that should start running up the poles soon, a row of purple hull peas, some more yellow squash, and some more sunflowers. I was in need of tomato plants and didnt have time to search for them at the stores. But, I looked around the pen where I had some young chickens this summer right outside my kitchen, and there were six little volunteer tomatoes growing! I transplanted them this week to the garden, and hopefully they will survive and make lots of tomatoes. I didn't really get any from the early spring garden. It turns out that field fence with too small of a hole doesn't work well at all as a tomato cage, and tomatoes without support (and I think without cutting off the suckers) don't produce very well. I think I'll stick with the tying method next time.
The green beans also didn't do well, because I didn't stake them in time.

The leaves in the garden for mulching the tomatoes and peppers worked wonderfully during the spring. I hope to put a lot of newspaper down tomorrow on the parts that are bare, in order to keep weeds to a minimum during the next few months of growing season.

I'd really like to can a lot more tomatoes , spaghetti sauce, and salsa this year. I did do some fig preserves this year that turned out very good. There are some wild plums on the edge of the woods that I may pick for jelly tomorrow as well.

I wish I had done better prep on my early spring garden, and had used the roundup on the weeds around early July so I could have done my 2nd planting earlier.

I wasn't too impressed with the size or production of my silver queen corn, and I'd like to try a new variety next year.

My rows were too close together this year, which made it a little harder to harvest everything.

TM