Growth

Things around the farm are growing!  My garden has FINALLY taken off now that we are getting some sunny, hot days.

Here are my potatoes.  

 

I haven't peeked into the ground yet to see how big they are, but I hope to soon!  When I was growing up, my mom would fix new potatoes and onions and I LOVED them.  I'm going to attempt to make some soon, as long as there are enough small potatoes to dig up.

I also have one pepper plant growing.

  I've never grown peppers before, but our local greenhouse was having a "Buy 2 veggies, get 1 free" sale when I went to buy tomato plants, so for my free one I picked out a little pepper.  I figured it would be a good way to try something new, without feeling like I wasted money if it dies or doesn't produce well.

Speaking of tomatoes, I've got four of them.  A friend from church had given me four little plants that he had started from seeds this spring.  I cared for all 4 the exact same way, but 2 didn't make it and 2 are doing just fine.  I'm not sure what the difference was, but I decided to buy a couple more to replace the ones I killed.  Here are the two that I bought:

 

And here are the two that were given to me:

 

 I've also got two watermelon plants that are starting to get bigger.  Can't wait for fresh watermelon!

 

My cucumber is still small, but it at least looks healthy.  When it gets a little bigger I am going to put a tomato cage around it and try to get it to grow up the cage instead of spreading across the ground.

And we can't forget the sweet corn!  The first variety I planted is getting quite tall already.  When it was a couple inches tall I planted a second variety, which is also up and growing.  It's tall enough that I should be planting my third variety, but I haven't had time yet.  By staggering the planting dates, I hope to have sweet corn through several weeks instead of it all ripening at the same time and then being done.  In this picture, the first variety I planted is on the left and the more recent planting is on the right.  I'll add the last variety to the right of that.

 

It's too early to guarantee anything, but if all these plants produce like I hope, we will be eating good later this summer!