THE GARDEN IS BLOOMING WITH LIFE! AND IT'S REALLY FRICKIN' HOT OUTSIDE!

Ahhh, the garden.  Of course!  I love my garden. In less then four weeks - it's grown huge!  Look at the difference:

Image taken May 11th

Image taken today - June 6th

 I had just 10 raised beds the year before last, last year we added another 8 and this year we added 3 more just for the tomatoes.  i know, right?  but I went over board this year with the tomatoes i started from seed, i actually got them to make it to the garden, alive!  So it was difficult not to plant them all! Last year, i had a hard time with that whole 'hardening off' thing' (where you are supposed to introduce the plants to the outdoors for one hour then increase an hour each day for a week. Yeah,  - too complicated). But i did do it right this year and i did it in a timely fashion, planning it all around the time before we left for Milwaukee and the horse show.

our friend Jason building the new skinnier beds for the tomatoes

The beds done before we added the dirt.
 I intend to run string up from the bed to the pergola to tie the plants to.

So yesterday we spent the whole day in the garden, building another bed for the tomatoes (for the total of 3) and mowing, weeding, and getting the final things in for the summer harvest.


 I planted more beans and used dead branches from the copious amounts of branches we have laying around here.  Seemed a more reasonable thing to use then going and buying a trellis, plus it looks cool.

For the pole beans to grow up

The Three sister's - corn on the top of the mound, pole beans around them,
then squash around the bottom..  I think i have too many squash planted
in there.  But who can have too many squash?!?!?

The Goyo Kumbo eggplant

The tri color peas

tomatoes!

peppers!

Potatoes!  All Blue and Fingerling's

Isn't she lovely and makeshift?

and it's so damn hot the chickens are panting!

So here it is - the garden!  I got more then enough spinach, and lettuce last week, but the weather is warm and rainy (actually rain forest-y hot and humid - heat index of 103 today!) and things are blooming with life!