My, How You've Grown!

Hi!! I've been a bad blogger lately! Summer has not allowed us much free time, and when it does, I've been trying to get a few things done around the house. I've had some pictures of our garden on my camera since June 28th and I'm finally getting around to sharing them.

So...you may remember the garden we started from this post, but we planted on about May 28th and it looked something like this.....

And now, one month later, it looked a little something like this....
Yikes! Everything is just exploding! We've had lots of rain and lots of sunshine, so I guess that's the ticket!
This is Sophie posing through the sunflowers. They have not bloomed yet, but I'll be sure to share when they do. I'm very excited! They are well above 6' tall.

Banana peppers...

Golden cherry tomatoes...I'm also very excited about the Heirloom tomatoes I planted this year. There are tons on the plant, but none ready to pick. When they're ripe, they have the most gorgeous colors.

We planted our pea seeds in mid-April, because peas like the chillier weather. They are done producing now, but we got tons of yummy peas...like these...

and these...

This week, I found that I have a few pests in the garden, like slugs and earwigs. I am NOT a bug person, so this part of gardening I really struggle with, but I've been on the attack all week and I think I'm winning! Since we've had a lot of rain the slugs are really having a party, but I am here to crash it!

To all you gardeners, I hope yours are doing great! What a gratifying hobby it is.