Garden Check 7/3

Seriously. It has only been 2 weeks since our last check and I swear the garden has more than doubled!!! We've eaten radishes, sweet peas, cucumbers, and a few carrots!!

Jenn, Lyz and Avery harvesting some of the carrots:

Lyz lost in a jungle of carrots:

Avery showing off a carrot:

Radishes 2.0 growth:

Baby green beans:

The cucumbers have taken over the garden...they have grown through the green beans and moved into the spot where we took out the sweet pea plants.

We learned two lessons in this. First, next year we will have to put some chicken wire or something up for the sweet peas to climb. Apparently they don't do a very good job of growing if you just lay them on the soil. Second...we need to give the cucumbers more space next year. I don't remember them taking over the garden we had growing up like this. But then in my head the garden we had growing up was like three acres big, which would be impossible since my parents don't have that much land.
The flower of a pumpkin to be:

We plan on growing the biggest, prettiest pumpkin we can and having Avery enter it in the local 4H competition. She planted the seeds and waters the pumpkins specifically so that she is in full participation of the pumpkin growing.
And oh my word the corn. Can you spot the 3 1/2 year old in this picture??

It even has cute little baby corns growing!:

We are so proud of our garden! Lyz and I were eating a bit of cucumber last night and it tasted even better because we knew we grew it! It is so amazing what a garden can give you. Now yes, we only got one harvest of sweet peas before those plants gave up, and we have no idea what happened to the cantaloupe. They could be somewhere under the monster cucumber plant, but we can't find it!! But everything else is beautiful and plentiful!! Yippeee for our garden!!