Clearing out the summer garden as the first frosts descend

The first frosts in our garden mark the end of the warm weather... and with winter setting in it was time to clear out some of the summer garden left overs to make way for the winter and upcoming spring crops.

we harvested the green tomatoes - maybe for some green tomato pickles...

we collected the last of the pumpkins...

mmmm... lots of pumpkin curry and soup over the next month or so..

...our Littlest riding her Giant Pumpkin... she planted the seed, pollinated the flower and watched her pumpkin grow all summer and was of course there to help when Dad picked it yesterday...

..we also collected some seed from our climbing beans for next season...

We made the most of having a few clear garden beds, and spread out some of the Autumn leaves we collected the other day and put out our composted chook bedding from the Tumbleweed compost bin.

Must get back to the garden to plant some more winter seedlings and some of our sprouting garlic from the cupboard.