Harvest Monday

It's Harvest Monday again over at Daphne's Dandelions where gardeners from around the country and the world are showing what their gardens have produced this week. Head on over to see what's happening!
It is true that the harvest here in the northeast is starting to slow down with the coming of autumn weather and shorter days, but there is still a steady amount of fresh vegetables in my garden.

 Green beans are still going strong. My third patch is now producing and patch #2 is in its full second harvest. Eggplants are growing slower, but I was able to harvest a few small ones. The cherry tomatoes above are from a volunteer plant growing in one of my walkways; it is the healthiest tomato plant I have at the moment. And I am finally seeing some peppers turning red. The ones pictured are Jimmy Nardello and Lipstick.

 Still getting little broccoli shoots! Our favorite veggie, so nice to have plenty this year!

 Salad greens! The majority is komatsuna, but there is a bit of lettuce (Rouge d'Hiver), arugula, tatsoi and mibuna in there.

 Carrots, finally getting to be a reasonable size. Which isn't much, but I'll take them!

 Two of the four butternut squashes I managed to grow along with the one and only Long Island Cheese pumpkin I got. All three are quite small but they still make me very happy. I want to use some of my winter squash to make the spicy pumpkin soup that I enjoyed so much when I was in Haiti.

 This has been my best year ever for peppers! I still have over a hundred peppers on the plants and I plan not to harvest them until they turn red, or frost threatens or they are damaged. The ones pictured all have slug holes eaten out of them so they got picked and I will cut out the bad parts and use the good. Waste not, want not!

Above are a few mostly green tomatoes. There certainly aren't many left out there and I've been bringing them in to ripen. The cabbage is the last one I'll get for the year. It is about the size of a baseball, but no complaints since I harvested a boatload of cabbage this year and have quite a few keeping in the basement refrigerator.
I am so sad to see the summer coming to a close! I have yet to have a really successful fall garden, but still have a few beds of late carrots, kale, lettuce, radish, arugula and mizuna coming along. Whether they give me much before the first frost which usually hits us in mid October remains to be seen. My fall-sown spinach has been decimated by munching worms as I was too slow to get them under cover. I'm thinking of sowing another bed in the hopes of it wintering over.