Wow, Anna, those are beautiful. I wouldn't have had the heart to cut them back either. It looks like a tropical paradise!
Arlene, I wish we could grow sweet potatoes here. It just doesn't stay hot enough for long enough. Might try those in the hoop house my neighbor will be sharing with me next year. So far it is in pieces, waiting to be assembled.
The forest service has been doing some controlled burning for the past 2 days. Yesterday the breeze was taking the smoke away from us, but overnight it has settled in, looking like fog now at daylight, and there is no mistake, it is definitely smoke. The sky above the eastern horizon is pinkish gray and if we see the sun, it will be that neon pinkish orange. I hope a breeze takes the smoke back to the mountains.
