It's over

The garden is done for another year. Summer seemed to go on forever this year. We didn't get our first cold spell until this past week. I managed to get all the corn off the stalks before the cold. Last night was the first night it got really cold. We couldn't eat all the tomatoes and there are still some out there. I have been sick for over 2 weeks so I wasn't able to freeze or can any of the tomatoes. We still have onions, lettuce, carrots and potatoes out there. I'm going to put some straw over them so we can continue to eat them at least until we get a hard freeze. My willow trees are doing great this year. Hopefully next year we will be able to move them to their permanent location out close to the property line on the north side. I'm hoping they will fill out and provide a wind block and neighbor block. Next year I plan to totally rearrange my front flower bed. It seems like stuff is just thrown in there wherever there was an empty spot. I want to put some of the lilies along my veggie garden fence line to provide a small wind block. I want to plant hollyhocks out there too since there are tall. I had a problem with wind this past spring and alot of the small delicate plants got beat up by the wind. the strawberries are doing good but didn't get to many this year. The flowering trees that I thought a gopher ate came back. Well, at least 2 of them came back and are about a foot tall. The replacement blue spruce trees that I received don't look very good. I think they sent me dead ones to begin with. I will have to send for another replacement. The lilac bush and rhubarb did not grow at all. Bums me out and kind of irritates me. I'm not ordering from that company anymore. I'll just buy local.