Week 5

 The kids and I put this together for Granny for Mother's Day.  From top to bottom, the plants are:  mother of  thyme, petunias, polka dot plant, pentas, coleus, begonias, and Mexican heather.  

 The potatoes and sweet potatoes, all of which seem to be growing well.  

 All 4 of the tomatoes have blooms on them, and two have small tomatoes.  The lettuce looks good, and the green beans are climbing up the tower strings.  

 These two tomato plants and the 3 pepper plants on the right side of the box have blooms.  

 Close up of the two toned French Marigold in the pepper box.  

 Squash, cukes, zucchini box.  The ornamental squash plants are coming up and are about 2 inches tall.  

 Hydrangea 

Cherokee Purple tomato, with blooms.

Week 4 a week late

 This is the Cherokee Purple tomato getting tiny buds on it.  

 Tiny cherry tomatoes!

One of the front sweet potato plants is missing!!  I looked all over but I couldn't find it; I am guessing that an evil evil squirrel stole it and ran off with the whole plant.  Unbelievable!!

Week 3

 I added some marigolds on Monday to this box and all of the boxes were fertilized with MiracleGro then as well.  The left rear cherry tomato has 7 little tomatoes on it already!  

 I added marigolds to this box too, and there is a volunteer potato plant that was apparently left after last summer.  It overwintered and came up when the soil got warm enough!  

 Zucchini, cukes, and summer squash have tiny little blooms.  In the rear of the box I planted two hills of ornamental (winter) squash.  

 Strawberries 

 Asparagus and radishes

 Close up of the little radishes...78 now.   

Potatoes and sweet potatoes. 

Radish count!

So far the radish count for Matthew's seed germination experiment is 71/100 as of this morning.

Wow how they have grown!

I took a picture of these green beans on Wednesday and they were barely peeking above the soil.  Now with the rain yesterday and today, look at how big they are!  A couple of these little plants are almost 4 inches tall, with several between 2 and 3 inches.  There are also at least 30 more little radishes that have popped up, in addition to the 5 that I took a picture of on Wednesday.  Hope that this is an indicator of a great garden season!

Week 2: Starting to grow!

Okay, here's the first of the weekly growing updates!

This is the sweet potato/potato bed. 

Some green beans are peeking up through the soil.  They're planted in the holes under the circle of the bean tower.  

The pepper bed.  In the center rear is the Park's Whopper tomato and in the very center is a Brandywine heirloom tomato that we got this past weekend at the Brookgreen Gardens plant sale.  It was just planted this evening so it will perk up soon.  

Zucchini, summer squash, and cucumbers.  A few of these were dug up by the evil squirrels, but they have been replanted twice ... hopefully they pull through.  

In the asparagus bed, Matthew planted 100 radish seeds for his germination experiment.  So far 5 little seedlings have come up!  We had a squirrel invasion here, too, so he may have to reseed this area in a week or so if no more come up.  

This is a pair of Cherokee purple heirloom tomato plants that we got this past weekend at the Brookgreen Gardens plant sale.  

2011 New Garden

2 cherry tomatoes, 2 large tomatoes, lettuce, and green beans (from seed)

 strawberry bed

 Asparagus, with radishes at the far end for Matthew's boy scout gardening badge seed germination experiment

 Green, yellow, red bell peppers with one tomato plant in the back center.  

 Zucchini, summer squash and cucumbers.

Sweet potatoes on the right, russets on the left.