It’s been almost exactly 3 weeks since we started the planting process. I was starting to get a bit anxious that it had been this long without any signs of life from so many areas, but then we had a really good rain storm the last couple days… and almost everything has sprouted now. There are still a few notable exceptions, and most the things that we transplanted from starts inside the house have now died, so we’ll have to replant those, or buy starts from the store. For now, we only have 1 zucchini plant and 1 yellow squash plant from the 10 we had (5 each). Charmaine picked up new bell peppers and Brussels sprouts starts at the store and we’ve planted those in place of the ones we grew inside that died.

Garden Area – June 5, 2008
The garden area is finally starting to look like it’s being used for something.

Bell Peppers – June 5, 2008
We gave up on the bell peppers and Brussels sprouts starts that we transplanted. Charmaine picked up these new bell peppers starts from the store and planted them this week.

Corn Row 1 – June 5, 2008
We now have 4 rows of corn planted, with two rows sprouted. This first row is looking really good… almost as good as the weeds behind it!

Pole Beans – June 5, 2008
The pole beans aren’t doing as well as I would like. They’ve been slow starting and I question if some of them will ever pop up. And one of these days I’m going to have to build something for them to climb.

Cucumbers – June 5, 2008
We’re going to have a lot of cucumbers this year. We have this large row of them, plus a second row of Lemon Cucumbers, plus 3 hills of cucumbers up by the house. We didn’t plan to have so many, but the pack of seeds went a long way!

Beets – June 5, 2008
I haven’t had beets since we grew them when I was growing up. I wasn’t particularly fond of them back then, but I’m giving them another chance.

Turnips – June 5, 2008
As far as I remember, I haven’t ever had turnips. With this many of them growing, I really hope I like them.

Squash Hill – June 5, 2008
We decided to plant squash and pumpkin plants all over the yard. Most of these places don’t have the highest quality soil. Here’s one such area. I’m amazed that the squash was able to sprout through this hill that has basically turned into cement.

Pumpkin Hills – June 5, 2008
Last week I was getting worried that all the things we planted outside of our vegetable garden area (the good soil) were not going to grow. But we had a really nice storm this week and now we have sprouts coming out of all 7 pumpkin hills in this shot. We’re going to have a lot of pumpkins this year.

Jack-Be-Little Hills – June 5, 2008
Here is another non-traditional area to be planting vegetables, where we’re growing Jack-Be-Little pumpkins. They are supposed to be these super tiny (useless in my mind) pumpkins. They’ve sprouted now, so we’ll see how it goes.