Our first frost is due this week -- in fact, there was a little this morning, though the temperature said it was supposedly 40º -- and so my garden season for 2013 is winding up. It's been an interesting year for growing things, to say the least!
The good news is that after I resowed nearly everything later in the season, we did get some consistent, small crops of green beans, tomatoes, and cabbage. Our sunflowers look good out there, and I have a few pie pumpkins that seem like they'll ripen before the vines are completely withered. So, nothing to really tide us through the winter, but enough to use as side dishes throughout the fall, which heals a little bit of that sad part of my gardener's soul.
Our garden also saw cucumber beetles, harlequin bugs, and squash bugs this year, along with some big ol' grasshoppers in our dried corn after the harvest was past. I really hope those aren't going to come back and take over next year, because I was totally creeped out by their big, staring eyes and their sudden jumping. Seriously, I have a phobia. I've finally mostly gotten past my fear of crickets and moths, and am able to go into a butterfly house now; but these grasshoppers brought it all rushing back.
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I just looked it up, and it seems it's known as acridophobia. (It's nice to know I'm not alone in that.) |

Maybe we can get a plant to survive sometime. Hope springs eternal for a gardener!
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