All The Leaves Are Brown

All good things must come to an end, and with shorter days and colder nights upon us, our garden has slowed significantly over the past couple weeks. Soon it will be time to till the plants back into the earth and prepare for next year. Although I will be sad to say goodbye to daily fresh produce (I literally did not buy one vegetable from the beginning of July until this past Sunday), it will be nice to have my husband back. All joking aside, our garden was a huge success this year, and a lot of fun for our whole family. I promised the uber-proud farmer that I would report out stats at the end of the summer (yes, he kept a spreadsheet - you would not believe the things that are spreadsheet-ed in the Stockwell household), so here goes:

10 peppers

62 summer squash

66 zucchini

34 meals of beans (I am happy to report that Ben did not count each individual bean)

8 meals of beets

62 cucumbers

5 meals of chinese cabbage

3 delicata squash

9 butternut squash (totaling over 55 lbs!), with more growing on the vines

317 tomatoes

1,099 cherry tomatoes

And because pictures of dying gardens aren't that pretty to look at, some pictures of our other little sprouts:

Driving tractors at the Topsfield Fair

Enjoying the last few weeks of being able to play outside without full gear