To clarify about fall crops
Tomatoes: I pull out tomato plants as they get blighty and try to take cuttings of healthy parts of plants. This fall I have two tomato plants in flower. One is from a cutting taken a month ago, the other is from a healthy sucker on a stem and cut away the rest of the unhealthy plant.
Both plants have healthy leaves and are flowering.
Also have green bean plants that were seeded in August, just now getting big enough to flower.
Today planted rutabaga and tomorrow some kale. In pots on deck I will put chard seedlings, those should last all winter.