#17 Hello Autumn 🍁 Harvesting 100+ Pumpkins and Getting Cozy For Fall

Last night the frost wiped out a lot of our garden unfortunately. Just look at these sad pumpkins. So sad. I was really hoping that they would get like another week, week and a half but sadly not. I'm gonna have to harvest them all. So annoying because I've been paying really close attention to the weather forecast for a while now and I saw that it was gonna get down to zero for like an hour this morning but then it must have gotten colder and that just wiped out a lot of our plants. I'm a bit sad about it. I'm not ready for for fall. I wish summer would last a little bit longer. We're just having so much fun in the garden and just harvesting and it's really rewarding to feed so many people from our garden. I guess that's just how it is. We live in Norway after all. Fortunately there are a lot of vegetables that really thrive after a frost. Like the cabbages, the Brussels sprouts, the kale, even beets and celery doesn't seem to mind a couple minus degrees. So it's not like our whole garden is wiped out but it definitely there's a lot of gardening in the next couple days. We just have to take out all the dead plants and harvest what's left on them. We did a lot of harvesting today though. We harvested all that is left of the zucchinis, all the beans, some more squashes, have some broad beans over here and a bunch of potatoes. Luckily have hopefully two more batches like this coming. So there's going to be a lot of preserving and cooking with this food in the next couple days. These small ones are so cute. And then you have this one that kind of looks like a little ghost. I planted a lot of spaghetti squash but I can't see any. I planted butternut. They didn't turn out to anything. I see a lot of red curry or uchiki curry. I'm not really sure which one it is. And there's some tomfox that's a Halloween pumpkin. They're supposed to be orange. This is some Marino di Chioggia which is supposed to be like this grayish blue. And then this I think is a blue ballad. And then we have the Dill's Atlantic Giant. I wish we could weigh this one but we don't have a scale. But it's heavy, trust me. And then we have some gourds here that aren't edible. Just for decorations. I planted a lot more gourds and this is the only type that I see in here. All of the other ones are edible. It's a bummer that these didn't ripen because they're not gonna be as tasty or store as well when they're not ripe and cured. To be honest in the beginning I was a little bit disappointed because I planted a lot of really cool pumpkins in there and barely any of them were ripe. I planted this huge spectrum of colors and I ended up with mostly just orange and white and the green ones because they're not ripe. But then the second and third patch really made up for it and I harvested over 100 pumpkins. And I mean that's pretty good but I must say that I'm a little bit disappointed that I have to wait another six months before I can start growing pumpkins again. It's just my favorite crop and the crop I enjoy the most. Sowing and harvesting and using for decorations. It's still a really good harvest. I'm still really happy but I'm even more excited now for next year where I'm gonna do everything right and plant even more varieties.