Progression of a Garden

 

My mom keeps asking for pictures of my garden.  So this post is for you mom!  If any of you were wondering why you haven’t heard from me in a while, it is because I have been out here in my garden.  Warning: this is a picture heavy post!

Here is the start  back  on the last weekend in February.  I wanted to go a little bigger this year, so we rented a rototiller.  Adrian was having so much fun, that my 10X12 plot turned into HUGE.A month later, we had lots of lettuce, and lots of hope for everything else.

   My helpers made sure most of the green strawberries were picked on a regular basis.  Sometimes we get lucky and enjoy some red ones. This was the first ripe tomato.  It ripened about 3 weeks before any others.  It was SOOOOO good.

 

Little yellow tomatoes.

Weeds: easy to keep out

Grass: not so easy to keep out

cantaloupe!

 

marigolds that grew nearly 6’ high.  I have no idea how it happened.  sunflowers, hollyhocks, and cosmos

And this is what I picked from the garden yesterday.  The rest of the counter is filled with zucchini and other summer squash. The fridge has bags of carrots and cucumbers.  As the weather here in Arizona continues to get hotter, I’m not sure how much longer this will last.  But it has been so wonderful to have a garden this spring.