garden update, skippable

this is more for me....So it's late summer, summer garden is wrapping up. It was a less productive year than I expected and I think I can cut myself a break as I did have a newborn/infant this season, and I do all the gardening and care for the bees/chickens; York said he wants nothing to do with it (including watching kids so I can have some time) so it's hard to be anything but slightly neglectful to everything. However, I did harvest/am still harvesting tomatoes, figs, blueberries, peas, strawberries, muscadine grapes, beans, radishes, acorn squash, basil, cucumbers, lettuce, bell peppers, onions, garlic, potatoes, sweet potatoes, spinach, and carrots. My numbers aren't great, though. This year I planted fewer cucumbers because last year I had so many I ended up feeding many to the chickens; this year I barely had enough for a few salads and never had enough for my favorite cucumber soup. I have not yet figured out how to plan enough peas, blueberries, or strawberries, but that's ok because the boys just eat those straight out of the garden. I have so much basil I've made enough pesto and frozen it that we should make it through to next summer without a problem, which is great since it's the boys favorite dish. My onions and garlic were small because I harvested them too early, but they were/are still delish. I need to figure out how to store them better; I thought they'd be ok in the basement and so far most of the onions and garlic are but the potatoes molded almost immediately. I need to get a move on the fall garden.
The bugs were bad this year, so much so that I complained enough that for mother's day York sprayed some of my plants with Seven Powder....freaked me out, but did the trick! I don't think I cannot grow organically considering the boys propensity for eating straight out of the garden...even the squash flowers they eat! The Japanese beetles were the worst and I believe I read that the more years into organic gardening you go the worse the bugs get so next year ought to be a doozy.
Then there was the headless chicken incident and the other day I went to inspect my beehive. I didn't smoke them like I usually do and I remember taking note that they were drinking up the honey with intensity--which is usually what they do when I smoke them (for fear that a fire is coming and they might have to get the heck out of there), but when I don't smoke them they usually just think I'm trying to steal their honey and they get mad and try to sting. Anyway, I didn't think it was that odd, but I did move a few of the honeycomb frames around...then yesterday there was so much activity it worried me to the point that I googled, "my bees are going crazy." They were just flying around the hive so much, like something was wrong. But google said it may just be an orientation flight since I moved stuff around, but today things looked way quiet and when I went out to check on them they were gone. Two bees I saw and that was it. I'm trying not to overreact and say it's colony collapse or anything, there were ants and beetles and nasty wax moths already moved in. The honey was all gone. I am very sad about this. I hope they just flew away and found a new home. The other day the tractor came to the soybean (round up ready soybeans, by the way) and sprayed something on them. I have no idea if this is at all connected, but it does worry me. I really, really loved my bees. I don't know if I'll get a new colony next year. I think I have too much going on, but I already miss them.