My garden is about done for the year. The zucchini isn't dead yet, but I expect a frost kill any day now.
I've got a giant box of calico popcorn sitting in my living room drying right now. I just ordered a "little stripper" for shelling it, as doing it by hand was going to give me blisters. I'm really looking forward to eating homegrown popcorn, and giving gorgeous bags of it away for Christmas.
I also grew some purple cornmeal corn, but it4 grew on really short stalks and something, probably a rabbit, discovered the garden patch and decimated my harvest. I have about a half bushel that I managed to save. Next year's cornmeal corn will be taller, so as to avoid this problem.
I have 4 mesh bags of cranberry bean pods drying in the kitchen. I imagine it won't actually be very many beans once shelled, but I'm looking forward to them.
I also grew my mystery Anasazi ruin beans, except I finally managed to hunt them down! They are Hopi purple string beans, and I managed to grow two rows of them. This is enough to replenish my dad's seed stash, my stash, and hopefully have a few pounds left for eating. I find the story behind these beans fascinating, so I was really happy to get some of my dad's old stock to sprout this spring. They're still out on the vines drying. We're supposed to have dry weather for at least the next 10 days. I'll just be sure to pick them out once there's rain in the forecast again.
There are about a dozen spaghetti squash out on the vine. Watching for the frost date so I know when to bring those in. I managed to get one sweet squash. I don't remember what it is, but it probably won't ripen enough to be food anyway.
Did well with cukes this year, but didn't actually do anything with the picklebush cucumbers. I'll do better with those next year.
Carrots did well, though for some reason, all the red ones went to seed. They're still tasty, and I'm saving a ton of seeds. It was just weird.
I think I'll get a good harvest of parsnips as well. I've planted them before, but not had much luck with them. I know those are best harvested after a frost, as they'll be sweeter. So again... any day now.
I did manage a few cabbages eventually, too. I'll pick the last of them this weekend. They didn't do super well because of the neighborhood rabbits. Although once I caught FLB (furry little bastard), things picked up.
On that note, I learned to butcher a rabbit this year. I decided when I caught FLB that I'd raise him and see if I could butcher and eat an animal I'd raised. Turns out I can, and in a year or two when I've got the backyard privacy fenced, I'll look into raising rabbits for food.
Is it too early to start next year's thread? I bought some seeds already. Figured I may as well since I was already paying shipping for the corn sheller. Boyfriend asked if he could pick some things to plant next year, so we got some french heirloom pumpkins, pool ball zucchini, and a couple of other things that looked like fun. He doesn't really like gardening, but he's willing to help me with it. Being interested in what we're planting is a good step forward for him. :)