The beginning of the end.....

On Thursday morning, I had three (un)willing helpers in our vegetable garden.  You see, some things are really quite finished in the vegetable patch by the end of August, and I needed some help!  We picked the last of the yellow and green bush beans, the carrots (which were quite dismal this year, and I was tired of looking at the scraggly, tiny things), the beets (see carrots) and dug up a pile of beautiful, large red Norland potatoes.  Success in one area!  All that is left right now is the swiss chard, tomatoes and cucumbers.  And the sunflowers, which have not bloomed yet.  They have about three weeks left before frost comes and wipes everything out.  So come on tomatoes, cucumbers and sunflowers, you can do it!