The Garden is Growing!

It's nice and sunny today and the perfect day for a garden update. Remember way back in February when we planted our garden? Well, we had a few challenges (ahem, ants) but we made it through. We replaced the plants that had been eaten and carried on. Now, about a month and a half later we're doing okay.

Our sunflowers are several feet tall and in need of stakes and we have beans pods on the beans. They're dry beans (Pinto) so they won't be done for several more months...

There are tomatoes on the tomato plants (can you tell they're Romas?).

We planted a nasturtium that is doing well...we lost another one in a storm a few weeks ago. I'm hoping to add a few more if I can find more seeds or starts. They are such a lovely addition to salads! 

We have peppers on our Serrano and Jalapeno plants and blossoms on the sweet peppers and tomatillos.

And, J. made a whole new garden space just for watermelon. They're doing well although everything is a little worse for the wear right now. We had a big storm last Monday and all of our plants are still recovering from the pounding rain. Nonetheless, the watermelons have each grown more than a foot since we planted them a week and a half ago. 

Unfortunately, the eggplants did not make it. We decided last night they were too far gone and I pulled them up this morning. I still haven't figured out why. I'm planning to do some more research (I'll make the eggplant work next year!) and plant dry bean seeds in their place tomorrow.

And that is how our garden is growing.

How does your garden grow? 

This post is part of the Country Homemaker Hop, and Seasonal Celebration Sunday.