Gardening Update

Here is a shot of a wax bean plant emerging from the dirt! 

Sugar snap pea sprouts!

Tomato sprouts!

Wax beans!  I love that you can see the bean it sprouted from!

It's alive!!!

More peas.

You can clearly see that they sprouted from a bean!

Our avocado tree is blooming!

Our five year old is a measurement of its height.  It's not very big.  I can't imagine it sustaining a full size avocado!

More bean sprouts!

The beans and peas.

Cucumber sprouts emerging!!!

The tomatoes are growing...

I moved some of the sprouts to pots.

Baby chard (right) meet big chard!

Fresh steamed chard!

I moved a couple of plants to the ground.  The next day something had destroyed them...oddly enough nearby plants in pots (just next to them) were fine!!!!

I found this in the kitchen!!! So, I planted it!!!

I definitely have a tomato farm going on!

Finally another rose bloomed!

Found this for some flowers that vine that I planted in the backyard!

Here is it set up:

SOMETHING stole an avocado (probably from two doors down) and ate it in the middle of the night.  Philip's guess is a possum.

Just today, our sugar snap peas are happy!

The wax beans are really happy next door!

The cucumbers are doing well, too!

The chard is getting bigger, and look, a carrot or two seem to be doing okay!

I planted a couple of tomato plants in the raised box.  This one seems to be doing okay.  All of the others in pots I moved back in the house  The other tomato plant outside is going to die, I think.  

I planted some more corn this week because the other stuff didn't ever sprout, and I think we have a few sprouts now!

These are either morning glories or moon flowers.  My guess is morning glories.  

Gardening so far this year

Here is what I have worked on so far this year, with more in the works.  

I bought a blueberry bush this year!  Hoping it turns out well, there were already a few blueberries on it when I bought it!

The first thing I planted were these, sugar snap peas and wax beans.  

My little helper!

I got a some seeds from a friend and bought the bag on the right last year, but never planted, so I decided to try growing them from seeds.  I planted them in an egg carton and put them in the window.  I labeled the side and felt like I was labeling a fruit salad, "cherry, pear, and orange!"

A few years ago Gavin picked out moonflowers for us to plant, but we never did.  We planted some sunflowers last year and so I thought it would be fun to do it earlier in the season (I think I did late June or early July last year). Then I discovered the moonflowers were a vining plant and bloom in the evening and stay open at night, so I decided to buy another climbing flower that blooms in the daytime, morning glories.  We are going to need some trellises! 

My tomatoes sprouted!!!

What a difference a day makes...

Our blueberry bush in its new home.  So far so good...

I also planted space master cucumbers cucumbers in a pot and I plan to plant pumpkins in a pot as well, but I haven't had much luck with them before.  I planted the chives in various spots in my garden and planted the corn in a circle, as recommended by someone after my ears of corn didn't have kernels all up and down them like they should.  I planted the carrots in one end of planter, but don't have much hope for them.  I haven't had much luck with carrots in the past, but this variety has done the best of any I have tried.  The sugar baby watermelons I plan to plant as well.  Last year I got a few, but never got any to full maturity, so hopefully we can do better this year!