Apple and Asian pear crop continue.
Hazelnuts dropping nicely with the windy days. 
Harvest has begun in some areas.
Great apple and pear weather, bad weather for
warm season crops.
Frost in some areas already, watch the
weather forecast for freezing temps.
Grass seed and winter wheat being planted, 
some growers irrigating the crop up.
Irrigation still needed in most mid valley
counties, many young hazelnut trees have
excessive leaf burn due to lack of water
in August and Sept.

Apple crop - good.
Broccoli -7th crop.
New Fall crop - looking very good,
6 inch heads.
More cold morning.
Pleasant Hill had frost.
Onion and garlic - doing well.
Tomatoes - still ripening.
Eggplant - done.
Irrigation - needed for garden and tree fruits.
Place diseasy pumpkin and cucumber
plants with powdery mildew in hot
compost or cold compost pile.

Protect warm season plants for the next
 to nights/mornings.  Cover with Remay,
 sheets or jug of water.

Even though it seems to be dry, if we look at the weather charts:
Prec. month to date - down 1.21 inches
Prec. year to date:  3.44 inches ahead of last year
Prec. since 10/2011 - 3.19 inches down from previous year.

So, even with the dry weather we are close to normal. 
Hint:  Water the garden and the yard, the soil is dry.

Blossom end rot or the end of tomatoes get a scabby
end,mean either toooo much water - probably not; 
not enough water - very likely in most gardens; or
too hot  yes;  or too cold;  yes, the last three weeks. 
Solutions:  add mulch to the soil or use drip hoses;
add lime to the soil, rototill lime (rate of 50 pound
per 1000 sq feet).

More good garden weather.
Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, zucchini, celery,
basil still growing nicely.
First crop of broccoli still producing heads.
August  crop - nice broccoli heads.
Apple crop very nice.
Grapes coming on nicely.
Asian pears - very good.
Fall wild blackberries and nice golden
fall raspberries.

Ripening tomatoes as the weather changes can be difficult.
 For the next week, cover the tomatoes with plastic and put
a LOT of apples under the plastic.  The apples emit  ethylene
gas and will help ripen the tomatoes and/or almost any other
fruit that needs ripening.