Out of control garden - still a garden

Summer is almost over, as little as it was, I'm gonna miss gardening and having fresh tomatoes and herbs from our little experimental garden:

This is what we've started with in June, just a couple of simple gardening beds:

And this is what 's become of it by the end of August:

Since this was our first attempt at growing tomatoes, we didn't plan very well and run into spacing issues when the plants got bigger:

Next year, we will definitely leave more room to each plant and use sturdier poles for tomatoes. The bamboo poles didn't prove themselves reliable at all. Overall, I'm very happy with the turnout, we haven't spent a dollar on tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs the whole summer.
I'm also gonna give my home canning skills a “go” and try to can some hot salsa.