i am cleaning up the garden in advance of our first measureable snow (possibly) and am a little relieved not to have to deal with these vegetables anymore. how many cucumbers can one vine make, i ask rhetorically, because you are not prepared for the answer i had to live through. next year i have to decide what to plant in the boxes that i, wisely, used almost entirely for tomatoes, and now have entirely too many canned San Marzano tomatoes, and also i need to avoid planting nightshades in the same soil for a few years.
the garlic goes in this fall as usual, but i do want more herbs and greens and squash. even though squash means battling the squirrels that inevitably learn to eat squash from people's carved pumpkins every year. i still can't grow sunflowers thanks to this.
ultimately i am oppressed not only by squirrels but by our temperature zone preventing me from growing every fruit tree i want and also not being allowed to have chickens. every day i wake up without chickens i am wasting my time on earth!