October 19, 2015
We harvested more green beans, raspberries, and tomatoes this week. We also harvested more fall green beans, garden peas, and carrots. As we were cleaning up before the first frost of the season, we found some potatoes and a cucumber!
We had our first frost Sunday so Saturday we cleared out all of the tomatoes and beans.
Tomatoes were on either side of this old chicken tractor. 
After the tomatoes were cleared out, compost was added. Now the ground is ready for next spring! 
The chickens love when we clean out the garden! 
(Last of the tomatoes!)
We ate the last of our squash this week. Sad day 😦 I hope one day I will learn how to grow summer and winter squash. It is our favorite and the squash bugs won’t let us get more than a handful of either each year. We cooked the last two butternut squash for our pumpkin baked oatmeal this week and next. After Halloween, pumpkin patches will give away their pumpkins and we will be set for the year (and so will the chickens!). We’ll have to survive for the next couple of weeks 🙂
This upcoming week, we will be harvesting sweet potatoes, putting up more hoop houses, and covering the rest of our fall/winter crops. Busy, busy! Check out what other gardeners are up to at Our Happy Acres.
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It’s a busy time of year for sure. It’s too bad about the squash bugs. We have them here too but they usually hold off until we get some squash. Looks like the chickens are doing the happy dance with those goodies!
Another first frost report – still can’t get over how so many of us from far and wide had a frost this past weekend.