How Did My Garden Grow?

Have you been wondering if it was worth all the time and effort it took me to pull up the zinnias from the green bean beds in my garden this year? I think it was. I picked around 40 pints of beans this summer. Most of those were canned, but some we shared or just cooked up with bacon and onions and enjoyed ourselves. Green beans are a big staple in our house, so I'm pretty excited about it.
The tomatoes did fairly well this year, too. We ate a ton of cherry tomatoes, as well as slicing some for burgers or sandwiches. I put up several pints of salsa and more of spaghetti sauce, though some of those tomatoes came from my neighbor's garden, too. Yummy, either way.

Squash came and came and came. We ended up sharing quite a bit of that, because my family will only eat it certain ways, but I love it, so I can't resist growing it each year. We got a few zucchini, too.
Our cucumbers we'd about given up on. Finally, in late August, we got to pick our first one. And have had several more since then, though the cooler temps now have pretty much stopped everything.
We got about three carrots, all small, from a whole pack of seeds. I haven't figured out the secret to those yet.
Several heads of broccoli thrilled my children until the caterpillars took over.
The sunflowers didn't want to grow this year, but when I replanted newer seeds, we had a nice late summer showing.
Our watermelon didn't do anything for a long time, but then stretched out every which way and gave us a juicy basketball-sized melon, which the kids declared sweet and good.
Pumpkins didn't work out this year, which makes us rather sad. We tried replanting them, but they were so slow to start they didn't get far enough before the weather started turning. Ah well. We can buy a few at the store to roast and can ourselves, because they taste better than the kind you can get already in a can. ;-)
As for those zinnias, they flourished in my other gardens.
Did you plant anything this year? How did your garden grow?