Last Day of Real Gardening

The ground in the garden is starting to harden up. Here are the last small loads of carrots and potatoes. The carrots are stored in sand. Here's last years's post on the process. Last year, early October was much warmer.

Below, a clump of Johnny-Jump-Ups:

Pea and Sweet pea flowers, still blooming:

Sugar snap pea flowers, still blooming, still producing small peas, most of which will become moose food, when they pass through in early November: