The Growing Continues!

Cabbages are softball sized.  Just a week more and we'll be ready to harvest.

The broccoli is ready to be picked.  We will leave the plant and continue to harvest side shoots for months to follow.

Butternut squash is finally fruiting.  They are taking over the garden paths!

It's hard to believe that this was just bare dirt two months ago.

Watermelon is getting huge.  The catalog says these will get up to 22 lbs each.  I guess we didn't need to plant two!

All the hard work is paying off.  We are so glad to have a garden!

Carrots are just beginning to swell at the base.

Sean peeking at the winter squash.

Early Harvest

The Summer squash are piling up and the beets are from an effort to thin out the patch!

I was overwhelmed by the number of beets left in the garden so I bought some canning supplies.  Pickled beets here we come!

Exploding with life!

In a matter of days the watermelon tripled in size.

Asian eggplant is ready for harvest soon.

I always forget how giant cabbage can get!

The Brussels are about ready to start forming in the crotches of the branches

I had to thin out the larger beets like this one to allow the others to mature.  We are drowning in beets already.

Our 4 summer squash plants are overwhelming us with tasty zucchini.

I don't even recognize these huge watermelon plants.  That is just two plants!

Our pole beans are forming flowers and will be fruiting very soon.

The cherry tomatoes have started to ripen!

Getting greener by the minute!

Crescendo

The very small beginnings of a watermelon.

Cabbage in all it's glory.

These early season cabbage are just about to start heading up.

Tomatoes will only ripen on the hottest days of summer.  I'm still waiting!!

The carrots are beginning to shine through.  To plant these we deeply dug the entire bed and mixed the tiny carrot seed with a gallon of potting soil.  We then spread the seed mixture in small furrows across the bed.  Carrots germinate slowly and the longer it takes, the more compacted the soil becomes.  We are hoping the tap roots that will later form juicy carrots made it through the soil without too much trouble.