Growth

Well, here is the progress. Hopefully this is what it should look like. Had you asked me three days ago how my garden was doing, I would tell you AWESOME. Then I drove by a neighbor's vegetable garden and decided mine was not so hot. The story of keeping up with the Joneses. Those darn Joneses.

We'll start with some of the most impressive to lift my spirits...

tomatoes

Sugar Snap Peas- I wasn't so excited about these taking up room in my garden, but they sure are pretty.

two rows of onions

And one of the sadest...carrots. I know, they blend in with the weeds. Ryan doesn't think they are growing anymore so we are going to watch these closely. My lettuce is another dissapointer. I think I am going to call it quits and see what happens. Just in case nothing happens I have planted two more varieties of lettuce (Territorial Seed Co. LT400 Summertime Crisphead and LT395 Winter Density Romaine). I also planted my pumpkins today. We are going to be pushing it for them to be mature by the monday before Halloween for FHE pumpkin carving.

Firmly Planted

So, we have now planted Parsnips, Muncher cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, onion starts from the grange, and potato starts from the Sjaviks. Things are growing! Everytime something sprouts, I get a little fit of excitement. I feel like a little kid still excited to see that something actually grows from a seed. Maybe that's because usually things don't grow from seeds when I plant them. I have now provided support for my peas and green beans to grow on and my caroots and zucchini have sprouted. YAHOO. Oh, and I guess I did have to replant my Butternut squash. Only one seed decided to sprout. Not very good odds for three mounds that were planted with about 6 seeds each.