Start of fall clean up

Sunflowers at my mom's house

I'm really glad it's time to start cleaning up the garden:  I'm so tired of gardening and canning and freezing and 'giving away'.  I went down to my 3 plots at the community garden and spent a couple of hours pulling dead plants, raking off straw, pulling weeds, etc. I still have a very short row of edamame beans to pick, some hot peppers ripening, and some brussel sprouts growing, but everything else has been pulled and disposed of. I was going to leave the straw on the beds to break down, but it was so full of squash bugs I raked it off and disposed of that also. It was nice to have so much of it finished.
Next I can start on my SWC's and raised bed gardens here. I still have green pole beans, butternut squash, and some tomatoes ripening.
Most everything else is done.

Things to do:
Try again to get rid of the trumpet vined in my tripod garden.
Dump all the SWC's in the compost pile.
Clean off at least one raised bed and prepare for planting fall garlic.
Plant fall garlic.
Pull tomatoes and dispose of them in the trash. Much too diseased to compost.
Cut those darn mulberry trees that are now 5 feet tall on the edge of the driveway.
Weedwack the mint, grasses, weeds, and daylilies around the turn-around area.
Clean all the water hyacinth out of the ponds.
Put the water lilies into the back ponds.
Catch the fish in the front ponds and move them to the back.
Take down the heron/egret wire over the big pond for the winter.
Dump the flower pots and separate out the elephant ear corms to store. Ditto on dahlias.
Bring in the amaryllis plants.
Rake and chop leaves.
Sift compost and store for spring.

I suppose there are more tasks, but that's plenty to think about and start on. Sometimes I think fall cleanup is more work than spring planting.
Do I consume my garden, or does my garden consume me? This year it was definitely the second option winning out.