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Hello, Hive Gardeners! 👨‍🌾

My seventh post about field activity this year. The last one was almost a month ago, in the end of an august, when we harvested most of the summer crops.
Now there is little crop left, there is not much work to do in the fields, and we have harvested all the pumpkins.

We could have let them grow until late autumn, after all, I had signed up for the Hive Pumpkin World Championships, organized by @hive-world-champ and @der-prophet.
However, since some of them had started to rot and there had been a lot of moisture and rain in recent days, we decided to harvest them.

Action!😜🎥💥

The largest one is fifty-five centimeters long and forty-five centimeters wide.
I don't know how much it weighs because I don't have any scales, but it's definitely more than 10 kilograms!

These two are the largest, and will be for Halloween.

The rest are edible, mostly Hokkaido except for one that is a butternut, even though it is green in color.

All in all, we harvested eleven pumpkins this year.
Last year, we only had a couple, and they were butternut squash, not Hokkaido. This is interesting because I am not an expert on seeds, soil quality, the atmosphere, and humidity, all of which influence this, and the relationships between them. We planted Hokkaido and butternut squash both years. Last year, the butternut squash grew, and this year, the Hokkaido grew. Who knows why that is?

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As I mentioned, we decided to harvest everything because the crops had begun to rot and become diseased due to the recent humidity and rain. If we hadn't harvested them, everything would have rotted - a little red beet, beans, young sweet corn, and peppers.

For a while, yes :)

But that's not all :)
Green lettuce, radicchio, and leeks are still growing in the field, as well as celery, Swiss chard, and leafy kale, so I hope we'll get something out of that too.
We won't need to buy vegetables for a while longer. We're not self-sufficient yet, but you can't grow everything yourself.

I feel most sorry for the tomatoes, because there are still a lot of them growing, more than ever before, but they have all become sick and rotten due to excessive moisture and insufficient sun, which prevented them from ripening properly.

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There will be more and more rain and moisture, and the field will slowly turn into a swamp. However, it may dry out by winter; you never know.
I'll probably clear some more of these weeds, because if I leave them, there will be even more next year.