Gardening Update

Our garden is coming along very well. Already we've made good use of the rhubarb, snow peas, broccoli and TONS of fresh greens. I just made a batch of pesto from the basil and packed five lunch salads from the greens. We've had the pleasure of at least tasting a few cherry tomatoes and raspberries, hopefully a taste of things to come. But over the past few weeks the real excitement has begun - the butternut squash are growing like crazy and baby eggplants and this morning I found five little melons. I'm extremely excited about the melons because for the longest time they showed no indication of life whatsoever. The sweet potatoes have been the biggest disappointment - we planted three "slips". One is doing OK, a second is at least growing and the other 4 are hopeless. There are progress pictures here, but here are a few of my favorite shots from this morning.