The garden did fairly well for the length of time that I actually had spent gardening.
I had a few harvests of squash and tomatoes in late September and early October. The peppers and tomatillos I had planted did not produce anything. I think it was because I did not get them planted until it was too late in the season.
Pictured below: (Clockwise, from top left) Yellow Crookneck summer squash, Buttercup winter squash, Cherokee Purple tomato, Early Girl tomato.
Frosty nights were predicted, and as I hadn't picked all the produce, I took precautions by covering the tomato and squash plants every night with some old quilts. With a quilt covering, the frost nipped the plants but did not kill them. Warm days returned, I suspended the nightly quilt covering, and I continued to harvest a few more squash and tomatoes.
The harvest finally ended when we had a snowstorm in mid November. Nine inches of snow fell and that killed the garden. I was really regretting that I hadn't simply cleaned up the garden in October!
Luckily, the weather warmed, the snow melted away, and I was able to do the garden cleanup. I pulled out all the dead tomato and squash plants and put them in the compost pile. Then I dug up the soil and raked it all smooth so that it would be ready for planting in the Spring.
More snow arrived on Christmas to blanket the garden, and now it is truly tucked in for the winter!
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