Sunburst
The Scarlet Queen
White Satin
Exactly what it looks like.
Eight Ball
Behold the carnage! After the october frosts, all the tender crops looked like this.
I simply can't imagine how many cucumbers I would have had if I'd started earlier in the year. As it was, I struggled to use them all!
The green beans weren't as thoroughly decimated as the squash or cucumbers. I was able to keep harvesting small amounts for a few weeks.
The obstinate wax beans surprised me with their cold tolerance and I wound up harvesting more in October than earlier in the year.
This is what harvesting tomatoes was like: searching for ripened survivors under the protective layers of dead foliage.
One of my final harvests of tomatoes and beans. The hearty onions were usable well into November, and I may even find some of them still alive in the spring.
These were harvested after the hard frosts of early November and were just fine, if a bit spicy. I'd like to find a milder variety for next year.
Of course my brassicas were going like gangbusters after the frosts, happy that the evil caterpillars were finally dead. This cabbage became delicious sauerkraut.
The hardiness champion was the Brussels sprouts, naturally. I harvested many right out of the snow!
These were the very last thing harvested from the garden, for the occasion of Kristine's visit. They were fantastic! (The visit was a great time too!)
This isn't even the final harvest of turnips. I got at least 30 large-sized turnips from a 3'x3' area! PS: this was the advanced guard of what was to be legions of Asian Beetles.
Not content to simply grow the vegetables, I have also been crocheting them.
The cauliflower I produced was amazingly tender and flavorful. I'm still shocked I was able to grow this finicky vegetable so well, and it was likely because of my late planting date. 
I definitely need to plant more carrots next year. These were one of the tastiest and most useful of all my garden plants. They are also very fun to pull out of the ground.
Well I didn't make it to the Sierras this year, but I was able to pretend I was among the Sequoias when I was picking celery. 
My cayenne didn't yield much this year but they were still tasty and cute.
These luscious greens don't know what's going to hit them in a few nights! Everything but the basil and zucchini kept producing for at least a month, though.
I'm thinking of making this one into kimchi. It's not Chinese-style cabbage, but the head is loose enough that I may be able to get the salt in.
Does my baby have my nose?
A variety of zucchini squash known as 'Eight Ball' for obvious reasons. I figured that if I was going to venture into the dangerous territory of growing summer squash, I might as well grow something that would be fun to stuff.
My tomatoes are a complete mess, but starting to be a tasty one.
My beans are finally starting to set fruit, though they are still only knee-high and will probably not produce the yield they would have had with a full season. It's still very exciting. This is the French filet bean, 'Cupidon'.
I planted these watermelons on a lark, but with another month to mature, they may yet be edible. They are certainly adorable either way.
Likewise, I took a chance planting these cucumbers from seed. The ones that had enough space and sun have already begun to flower and make fruit. These are 'Amour' pickling cukes.
Savoy and 'Stonehead' cabbages looking good and forming heads. I think the savoy cabbage will be great for things like colcannon (I'll post the recipe later). 
I planted some flowers here and there in the garden to encourage pollinators and add extra color.
A wee spider valiantly standing guard (or maybe just chilling in her hammock?) on a stalk of 'Golden' purslane.
I call this 'Squash Blossom Jungle'. 
Here's a cheeky little bee visiting a female flower (IIRC) with a load of pollen.
I still can't believe how adorable the teensy patty pan squash are right now. They're a bit more slow-growing than the zukes, but they will be SOOO delicious.
Who needs cabbage roses when you can have rose-like cabbages? 
My 'Red Acre' cabbages aren't doing so well. In the past my red cabbages have grown better than the green ones, but this time they're struggling. These seemed to have difficulty getting established and are more sensitive to water stress and evil moth nibbling.
Anyone who can name this 'moon food', as Dan calls it, wins a box of donuts! 
The garden, just over one month after planting. The tomatoes are almost as tall as me and I've given up trying to stake them up. So far they have lots of flowers and green fruit.
I planted this cabbage from seed and it might just have a chance of setting fruit before the snow flies. No flowers yet, though.
Scarlet Queen turnips--they are just so beautiful. Their greens also grew a lot taller and straighter than the other turnips, making them even more distinctive.
My first turnip harvest! Definitely the most adorable vegetable, I am looking forward to making them into tasty pickles this weekend as more mature.
I was too exhausted to do anything with the greens so I guiltily composted them.
Here's a closeup of some of the caterpillar damage.
Amazingly, though, the cabbages are starting to head. I may need to sprinkle them with bug killer again once the rain lets up, but they are well on their way to being sauerkraut now.
My first bean blossoms. Come on little guys, you can make beans before winter, I just know it!
And hooray! My first tomato of the season (Rutgers variety). It was tomato-tastic, though one side was home to some kind of naughty bug. I ate the rest though and it was like mainlining summer.