Come what May

Finally, a summer garden update.  So many sweet little plants!  I am so excited for all the veggie goodness coming our way.

 El Grande jalapenos with pole beans.

I sprouted the pole beans myself in our laundry room.  This prevented birds from digging up ungerminated beans like last year, and also allowed me to share with gardening friends, as I ended up with way more beans than I could plant.  Instead of planting on their own, they've all gone in with my peppers in huge containers, caged with a central pole. 

Hungarian wax pepper, already with a blossom! (Planted here with Anaheim chilies and Blue lake beans.)

 I am giddy at the sight of this CUCUMBER MADNESS!  Growing three different kinds total, seven plants altogether, because sometimes a girl has certain cucumber based desires that must be quenched.  

This was taken after they were first planted.  After seeing them done on the Free Farm, I asked my dad to help me devise some sort of vertical contraption.  It's brilliant--these wire frames fit right inside the troughs.  I have two troughs going for two tiers of cucumber plants all at once!

These are snap peas in with a silver fir tomato.   Despite the bad luck with tomatoes last year, I am determined to try again and planted a total variety in containers: green zebra, a sweet Chelsea cherry tomato, and the silver fir.   Speaking of which...

 ...a welcome sight!  

I am already having visions of the salsa I will be scarfing come summer.