Late-season garden

I pulled these stumpy carrots out of the garden yesterday. They're a bit ugly, but they taste pretty good in the vegetable soup I made last night. (Chopping them up was so much more satisfying with the snazzy new knife I got from Hill's Kitchen. What had previously felt like a confrontation with recalcitrant vegetables now seems more like a mutual agreement that they'd be much tastier chopped up in the soup.)



Something else I pulled from the garden yesterday: this huge squash that was plotting world domination while hidden under the leaves.



There are a good number of green tomatoes lingering on the plants, but there's only been one ripe one in the last few weeks. With any luck, we'll get a spurt of warm weather to persuade them.