Above is the main garden bed.  By all accounts, this group of veggies is going wild.  The first tomatoes are growing and looking great.  A few little bean pods have made their presence known, the vanguard of many more to come.  The corn is looking strong.  Early on, some slugs were having their way with the sunflower leaves and the bean leaves.  They seem to have consumed their fill and moved on.  I’m hoping that the sunflower recovers.

The Pea Patch above.  This plot has been slower coming along as many of the first plants were choked off at the base and withered.  Some kind of blight got hold of them and right as they were transplanted.  The first little pea pods are coming along on the most mature plant. 

Pumpkin Patch.  This is the plot that we created this year and now have planted both little pumpkins and full size plants.  Both years that I have gardened, some type of plant simply gets planted in outlandish numbers.  Last year, it was 17 tomato plants.  By the end of the season, it was laughable how many plants there were.  If there had been time for the fruit to come in, we would have had enough tomatoes to kill a horse.  This year, it’s pumpkins–I have 13 pumpkin plants.  When I was seeding and transplanting these, it never occurred to me that this would be a lot of plants.  Now, I am beginning to wonder.  I just have a hard time plucking a good plant and sending it to its death.  But, I’m imagining this tangle of pumpkin plants once they all start to spreak out and do their thing.

The North 40.  This small patch next to the house contains some green beans and a pumpkin plant on each end.  We took a few odd-shaped bricks that were laying around to spruce things up a bit.  The  soil is pretty poor here and the amount of light is limited by the large pine tree in our yard so this plot is more of an experiment to see what will actually grow.