Our Growing Garden

Our garden has done very well this year! When we left for vacation in Utah, it was still pretty small. When we came back two weeks later, it had exploded in growth! We were amazed. Here are some pictures I took a few days ago.

Here, we have basil, arugula, and some tomato plants. In the back we have corn. Dan decided to experiment with the corn and just plant it in the dirt that was already there. They did well, but have since stopped growing, so they're not as tall as the other ones in our other garden. They are growing corn, so it will be interesting to see how they turn out.

Here, we have corn, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, onions, a strawberry plant, a pepper plant, and basil. The lettuce finally stopped producing. Well, it actually starting flowering and I kept picking off the flowers, but then the lettuce wasn't as big and some parts of it were bitter. So we just let it go. We had spinach too, but we just didn't eat that much of it and it started flowering too, so we just let it go. Hopefully, because we let it flower, it will come back next year.

Dan wanted to grow a pumpkin this year. It's grown a ton, but hasn't actually started any pumpkins yet. There are a lot of blossoms on it, so I'm not sure if we'll actually get a pumpkin.

One of our tomato plants is on fire and producing like mad. Unfortunately, we thought we had a big boy tomato plant, but I guess it was mislabeled, because the tomatoes are yellow. I'm not sure what kind it is exactly, but they're not quite as flavorful as red ones. They're still nice and juicy and have that nice garden taste, as opposed to grocery store tomatoes. We have 5 or 6 other tomatoes plants that have a ton of little green tomatoes on them, so soon we'll be swimming in tomatoes. I'm hoping they'll all be nice and ripe at the same time. I'm planning on canning them. We shall see how that plan goes.