We grew the usual vegetables and herbs (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, corn, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, basil, pole and bush beans) as well as some things new for us: onions, kale, leeks, carrots, dill, turnips, and peas.  From September until November we're almost completely consumed with harvesting, roasting, pickling, canning, drying, and freezing.  Three maddening attempts to grow beets nearly turned Sharon into a hunter!  Deer, mice, pheasants, mice, gophers, and mice were a big problem this year.  Oh, did we mention the mice?