A garden in bloom!

Well it's the beginning of June and our garden is starting to produce the goods! 

As you can see, our star veggie right now is the squash. We've already picked about 8 big ones and there are plenty still growing. 

The plants themselves are huge as well! They took up all the space I gave them, and a good portion of the space I gave the cucumbers!

The next big producer is the beans:

The plants that survived my dog trampling them have been so heavy with beans that they fall over! 

And the beans that survive my kids eating them fresh have been cooked or frozen and they are quite delicious. We'll definitely be doing beans again next year. 

So far the corn has been all show. It's tall and wonderful looking but none of the corn is big enough to eat yet. I'll brag about how delish they are in a couple of weeks though, don't worry.

Speaking of having promise- look at these tomato plants! Wyatt is 4' and they're catching him fast. Just this morning we discovered our first green baby tomatoes too. 

We also saw our first flowers on two of our pepper plants. 

Although now that I see the plants. I won't be giving them nearly as much space in the future. Hopefully the three big plants we have deliver enough peppers for Matt to enjoy (I'm not really a pepper person). 

Finally, we now have a couple pickle-sized cucumbers! 

Once we get a few more, we're going to venture into the world of pickling and canning. 

I'll let you know how that goes! 

All in all my garden is doing great! There are too many weeds, not enough time to weed, and a few squished plants from the dog and the kids but it's growing wonderfully and we love picking our dinner and teaching the kids about nature.