Garden Update!

It's like when we first got Saba and she was so tiny, and little by little she grew - and now I can't really remember what she looked like when she was a baby unless I look at pictures. Well, I feel like the same goes for gardening. Especially for the tomato plants. When they arrived in the mail, they were small - 6 tomato plants and 6 pepper plants fit into a small box.

Now check them out:

I think we need to stake them up soon. 

Our beans have sprouted!

I was surprised to see them popping up out of the ground so soon, but here they are! This picture shows them 2 days later. They grow very quickly!

The lettuce is currently hiding among a thick crop of weeds. Kurt and I are scared to pull any weeds out for fear that we're plucking out lettuce.

We aren't experienced enough to really know the sprouts that we planted from the natural field growth. I've pointed out two spots where I think lettuce is growing. It doesn't help matters that the lettuce we planted is a mixture of several types - some varieties I think will look very much like weeds even when they are one day on our plates!

First, if you can see it, I'm pointing to a green leaf with reddish speckles.

Here I'm pointing to the bright green little guy in front, and directly behind him is a darker spiney looking sprout.

For now, they'll have to compete with the weeds.

The zucchini has also begun to grow well. It's crazy, though - the instructions on the seed bag said to plant 6-8 seeds in one hole, which I did, but only one plant has emerged from each mound! Each one looks great, though, so I'm happy with it. Here's the best looking one.

The cucumbers are doing well, except for one casualty - one of the 4 seedlings died - and the fact that the seeds I sowed directly into the land haven't sprouted yet, which seems strange.

He's still smallish, but so much greener than before.

Kurt and I like going to the garden because it really is peaceful. Check out the field behind Kurt. If we don't weed, that's what our plot would look like!

Yikes! You can check out some of our other neighbors' plots too.

I almost forgot to mention that we have a new addition to the garden. A protector of sorts...

Meet Ulfgar the Garden Gnome. We feel safer with him watching over our plant babies.

Sunday we hung out at Kurt's parent's house and had a cookout with Jenny and Vince, which was a lot of fun. We decided that Saba's not too keen on swimming, but she does like to walk around freely on the deck. Here she is swimming towards me.

A mommy knows the look of desperation on a pup's face. And here it is:

Maybe no more swimming for awhile.