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I wish I could show you pictures of the garden harvest I brought in last night, but with the present methods for sending these emails that is rather tricky.

Besides, I didn't take any photos. The sun sets earlier these days, so because I heard a frost warning on the radio, I was busy harvesting even my green tomatoes, cutting off the squash and butternuts that had only just begun to grow recently - so they are hardly any longer than my hand, but I filled a big 5 gallon bucket and some smaller ice cream pails for the tomatoes.

Then, realizing I could gather up some armloads of the plants I'd yanked out of the ground, and put them into the green compost bin, I managed to clean up almost everything in the western half of the garden.

I took some minutes to snip off some zinnias and a few poppy pods for seeds, but the sun does set earlier at this time of year.

So tonight I'll do a raking of the leaves and see if the garden doesn't look strangely empty.

Mind you, I still need to cut off buckets full of marigold flowers along both sides of the path down the middle of the garden.

I might even get the east side of the garden raked and the leaves cleaned up. (After harvesting the sorrel leaves.)

The compost bin is about full, so from here on I'll be filling garbage bags full of leaves. I don't put them in the compost bin until spring, for I've found that stacking them around the hollyhocks will make sure they survive the deep temperatures of our winter.

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