The Garden

We heart our vegetable garden. Before this year, I was a gardening virgin. And now I feel like a first-time parent, calling all of my gardening friends and researching on the internet over every little thing! It's so fun to visit it together every morning and evening and see the little changes that are inevitably taking place each day - sometimes each hour! We started in early May and here is how it has progressed...

These are shots of the initial setup - boxes, then newspaper cover, then dirt! The boys loved helping haul the soil in their little wheelbarrows!

I regret not having taken pictures of our initial plantings (my fingers were a little dirty!), but here is what it looked like about 3 weeks afterward.

And the following pictures were taken last week...

Our lovely lettuce!

The Pepper Patch - red, yellow & green

From left to right - watermelon, celery, blackberries, raspberries, my herbs and our mammoth zucchini & yellow squash (I promise they have doubled their size since last week!)

Our five different kinds of tomatoes - brandywine, roma, grape, yellow pear & early girl. I've got parsley in there somewhere...hiding...

Our wee, baby beets...we've got carrots near them, but I forgot to get a shot of those.

green onion & globe onion...

Our strawberry patch...looking a little sad this year, but hopefully we'll get more next year...

Bush beans, sugar snap peas, cantaloupe & cucumbers! We've also planted a sunflower/daisy garden along the fence, and can't wait to see them bloom.