The End of a Great Season!

After two long evenings cleaning out, cultivating, and putting compost on the soil, we are finally ready to call an end to the season and put the garden to bed. The tomato plants were especially reluctant to come out, and we had to work hard, often showering other gardeners with soil or tomatoes as we struggled to wrangle the big plants out of the ground!
This season, we donated over 200 pounds of food to charities:
Five pounds of fingerling potatoes

Five pounds of peppers

Ten pounds of basil

15 pounds of eggplant

20 pounds of beans, both green and purple pole
20 pounds of cucumbers
50 bunches of Swiss chard
80 heads of lettuce
80 pounds of tomatoes
These veggies, combined with about 200 pounds that we took home to enjoy in our own kitchens amounted to about 400 pounds of good organic food! What a bountiful harvest!