I finally got around to taking some current photos. The garden is finally starting to grow - our corn is finally knee high. I was impressed with a friends garden earlier this week because their corn is already in tassel! Our corn won't tassel out for a few weeks, but we have small tomatoes, the beans and peppers are in bloom and we're eating swiss chard and fresh peas. I'm still waiting patiently for the first squash, it looks like we'll have a yellow zucchini in a few days. The garlic is getting close, I pulled one out of the dirt today and it looks pretty good, but I'll let the leave die back a little more before I get the rest pulled.
Our strawberries were a little disappointing. With all of the rain the berries just rotted on the vines. We did manage to pick 71 qts. of strawberries. I've made bread and pies and fruit pizza - and froze a bunch! The spinach crop was small - 1 lb. 4 oz., but I pulled the old plants and replanted a new batch. We put 5 lb. 3 oz. of sour cherries in the freezer, and we've picked 24 oz. of peas so far (shelled weight). I picked the first of the swiss chard last night - about a pound.
Zip managed to get the whole garden tilled up this week, so it's not looking half bad. I pulled 6 - 5 gallon pails of weeds out of the garden this week. The first planting of potatoes and the peas are over run with weeds right now, but I'll try to pull a few more today.
My first glad is in bloom, it's a pale yellow. The day lilies are in bloom now too, if I feel ambitious I'll try to get out and dead head some of them. The poppies are starting to bloom, as well as the sunflowers.
My herbs are surprising me and look pretty good. With any luck I'll have my own dill for pickles this year.
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