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.  

Week Four

Most of the peppers and tomatoes have either blooms or fruit on them, the zucchini is close to blooming, and everything else is coming along nicely.  

Week three, a little late

Everything is looking good!  

Mid-Week

Here's a freshly planted "patio" tomato plant.  Let's see how this one works out.  

The path between the two beds is freshly mulched; we hope it stays weed free now.  The asparagus beds were planted with some sunflower seeds today since only a couple of the asparagus are growing.  

We put in a topsy-turvy tomato plant too!  This is a sweet 100 cherry tomato.

Just a picture of the beds, all growing nicely.  

Week two update: Who pea'd in the garden?

We have veggies growing!  

Here is one of the sugar snap pea plants with a tiny little pea pod. 

 

And two teeny tomatoes.

Now for the rest of the updates on the boxes:

Cukes are coming up all around the base of the ring and sugar snap peas are doing well.  

There are several potato plants in this picture, look for the very dark green leaves.

This bed has lots of yellow onions!  The pimiento pepper plant in the upper left is about to bloom and the tomato plant on the left is the one with the tiny tomatoes in the above picture.   

The peppers and tomatoes are looking good, as is the cantaloupe!  The evil squirrels have been digging up the green onion bulbs in this bed so we have been replanting them.  The okra was planted in a set of three seedlings, but two of them were bitten off.  I put red pepper  flakes around the remaining okra to (hopefully) deter them.  

Here is a closeup of the first asparagus!  It's very thin and still pretty tiny, but at least we know they are growing.  :)