Well, it's about time to show the growth of our garden - from seed to harvest. This has been quite the adventure to grow our own produce for this summer. We realized that we were living the effect of the fall with Erik working in the soil by the sweat of his brow, and Jane laboring in pain through her pregnancy and birth. :)
So...
Here's the many seedlings I started back in March. Our front sun room was practically a greenhouse for a while.
I made an additional three beds in the back of the house this year which started off looking like this. We had sugar snap peas growing up the fence, potatoes in the back plot, tomatoes in the middle, and greens in the front. This grew into...
...a forest! (actually only half the size here for what we have now). These were actually upstarts from our compost that we transplanted to the back plot. They have proven to be more hearty, producing 5 to 10 times more fruit than my attempts at starting plants from seed. I think we should just compost garden next year!
Side note, this was the rain barrel I made with Jane's dad, Steve, early in the season. A fun project and amazing to see how it only takes 30 minutes for this 55 gallon barrel to fill up in a steady rain.
In the rest of the yard, we planted carrots, onions, cabbage (all seen here), radishes, green beans, broccoli, herbs, yellow squash, zucchini, pumpkins, gourds, spinach, lettuce, and flowers.
Finding zucchini before they were the size of a club was sometimes a challenge. Here's the perfect size to pick...
...and this is too large!!!! oops.
But for a more pleasant surprise, we had several cantaloupe upstarts from the compost that have been delicious.
5 or 6 varieties of tomatoes, including my favorite heirloom, the Black Krim Tomato.
Carrots were a blast to watch grow and pull up from the soil.
You can imagine (and if you can't just check out our expressions) our excitement when things started ripening for the harvest.
Now we have our fall garden started and will post the many wonderful things we have coming up in a month or two. 
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