Ta Da

This year I decided to try growing vegetables in a raised garden behind the garage. The area itself is prone to standing water whenever there is a significant rainstorm, so raising the garden bed was a must. It's also easier to tend to the plants, although I haven't had to do much of that. The tomato plants took off immediately, but the green peppers stayed the same size for about a month. Then the pepper plants seemed to stretch themselves upward dramatically. The odd thing is that there are absolutely no flowers on the pepper plants. Bummer. There are lots of little tomatoes on the grape tomato plant, but only one so far on the big boy tomato plant. The cucumber plants are growing nicely and putting out lots of yellow flowers, so I'm hoping to get significant cucumbers from all this. The pumpkin plant has huge leaves and some flowers, but I only want to get one or two pumpkins so that's fine. There are three or four broccoli plants strewn in for good measure and anything I get from them is a bonus. For fun Henry and I threw some radish and carrot seeds around the garden and it looks like some of those are going to produce. The seeds were just thrown in helter skelter and a lot of the little plants are too close together to get sizable roots, but what the heck. This year is the first year for this and the year I see what's what.