::garden update::

I thought I'd do a quick update on our garden.

(mostly for my Dad :) )

It's grown!

A few close-ups of the produce...

Green Peppers...

Radishes...

...and they're HOT!! We pick these pretty often for salads. We give some away too.

Green Beans...

We had to replant a few because the first batch didn't give us many sprouts.

Tomatoes...

They're monsters! They've each got a million tomatoes on 'em (not really a million, but you know, a LOT). The middle bush (cherry tomatoes) grew so big it lifted the wire support off the ground and then tipped over. All the tomatoes are green still, but they'll start turnin' any day now, I'm sure.

Yellow Squash "Crook Neck"...

It's coming along. It had a broken stem on it, so I just cut it off, and ever since then, it's gone nuts! The plant itself is huge. There are a couple of teeeeeeny little squashes on there.

Cucumbers...

We had to replant these because they didn't sprout the first time (same as the green beans). We'll see how they do this time.

Corn...

Our corn's doin' pretty good. No ears yet, and it's not as big as the neighbors', but it'll get there (we hope).

Carrots & Lettuce...

We cut the lettuce pretty often for salad. The carrots are doing well.

Watermelon...

We only have 2 watermelon plants (out of the 9 we planted). I think maybe we washed the seeds away when we watered. The 2 little plants are doing well though.

Peas...

We're FINALLY getting pea-pods! We lost a whole row of peas. A friend told us it was because we had too much compost in our soil, and it burned up the plant. But our other row is doing well.

Onions...

Our onions are lookin' good. The plant part came out of the rough look they had at the beginning, and seem to be doing well.

And that's about it! It's been fun. We go out every day to weed and water and check on things. It's always fun to see new growth or a change in the vegetable itself. The kids get excited too. They've helped a lot with the watering, weeding a little, showing us new stuff, and planting-Coopie always says "oh howp." We can tell the kids helped us plant because we have random carrot plants popping up all over the place-some in the watermelon mounds, in the middle of all the lettuce, along the brick edge, etc.

It's definitely a learning experience! It took us a while (and probably cost us a few plants) to learn to best way to water, and we already know a few things we want to do differently next year.