fall crops

Even as dry as it is I keep planting for fall crops.  Spinach, turnips, lettuce, and even some carrots in cold frames.  They don't totally mature before freezing, but in the frames the small carrots have that intense fall sweetness you cannot buy in a supermarket.  Most people who taste late fall carrots can't believe those orange things in a bag are the same species.  Most vegetables that mature in cooler weather taste better, the exceptions being corn and tomatoes.  The only downside is the inevitable onset of winter.