Gardeners - Pictures?

Do any of you take pictures of your veggie gardens? If you do, I'd love to see them.

We tend to take a few pictures from year to year of the vegetable garden and our flowerbeds, just to see how things have changed over the year, particularly in the flower gardens.

We planted our veggie garden on Memorial Day. The following Saturday morning, I took notice that our corn was already poking through the soil. And our bush green beans are a good 2-3 inches tall already! We have lots of flowers and peppers coming on our pepper plants. Last night I found a few flowers on the tomato plants, too. DH wants his Lemon Boy tomato plant to really thrive, so we've been babying that along a little bit.

Please take some pictures of your gardens and the produce you get from them. And please post them! I really would love to see them.

Susan, I love your yard! How beautiful!

What is the shrub in the picture between your pretty yellow roses and the one of those gorgeous red roses? With the pink leaves? That's really pretty!

And what are those balls in your holder? Are they suet balls? I can't tell.

Feralvr, I'd like to see your windowboxes, if you don't mind. DH has been promising me window boxes now for the last 2-3 years.

Mooch, your garden is beautiful! And so is your little girl! What fun she's having! It's interesting you having a garden, considering your plant phobia....congratulations on having a garden anyway.

I use gloves when I garden because I have a thing about earthworms. I'm scared to death of earthworms, caterpillars, and the like. It's better now than it used to be, but even now if I'm digging or weeding and a worm pops up, it takes my breath away and I have to remind myself to breathe. Stupid, I know. I try to wear sweatpants, too, because if there are ants anywhere (and there are), they will find a way to crawl on me. They bite and then the bites itch terribly and swell. Sweatpants and gloves are my friends in the gardens.

When I was out last night, I noticed that our pepper plants are really blooming and we even have little peppers already. The tomatoes have flowers, too. The corn is about three inches tall now....I'm going to get in there this weekend and weed and hoe between the corn rows. (We also planted some squash between the rows of corn as we had no place left to plant.) We're getting the hot, sunny days that corn loves, but not nearly enough rain. We planted bush green beans and they're probably about 3-4 inches tall right now. Something is eating the leaves, though, so we're going to look for an organic insecticide to use on the bean plants.

We planted red beets, but I don't know what the first leaves of beet plants look like, so I don't know if it's beets that have come up or if it's just weeds. I'll wait to see what's going on in that area before I weed there. Zucchini plants are looking good and so are the cucumber plants.

Newfosterparent, we're thinking of trying strawberry plants again; we had strawberries many years ago. And later on toward this fall, as the weather cools down, we may try to plant some lettuce....we didn't get to the garden as early as we wanted to and we were afraid that if we tried to plant it now, it would bolt.