We've had a bit of excitement in our wee little garden this week. I think I love how excited the boys get over every blossom and bud more than the fresh vegetables themselves. Our first ever pumpkin blossomed this week. I honestly didn't think any of our transplants would be successful (since I've never grown anything from a seed successfully) and thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I noticed that bright orange flower a few days ago. It's very beautiful. Our zucchini has also bloomed this week and seems to be doing well.
Hunter planted a watermelon for cub scouts and Mark transplanted it a few days ago. I was sort of bummed because I forgot to pick up the watermelon seeds at Home Depot back in March and I had really wanted to try growing some watermelon. But thanks to Johnette and the scouts, it looks like I'm going to get my watermelon afterall.
Our corn is doing really well, although I don't expect we'll get to eat any, since the squirrels are already staking their claim. But it's exciting nonetheless to see our first-ever corn stalks growing so happily out there. We also planted tomatoes but the silliest thing are the tomatoes that are growing in the garden that we didn't plant, at least not on purpose. We had millions of tomatoes drop last year that we never got around to picking up. Mark just rototilled the garden at the end of the season and stirred them all in. Anyway, we've had several tomato plants spring up in the garden that we didn't plant and one of our strongest tomato plants is one of them. We also have a twelve-foot sunflower that planted itself last fall and Noah couldn't be happier about it.
But my favorite thing by far are my sugar snap peas. The boys have been watching them anxiously for weeks now. Hunter pointed out that we had a blossom about a week ago. And today while I was out taking pictures we discovered that not only do we have several blossoms but we have pea pods too! The screaming and carrying on that went on was unbelievable. Too bad they don't feel that way about peas at dinnertime. None of us can wait for those first few sugar snap peas--delicious! Growing a garden is totally awesome!
I'm so jealous. My garden just isn't blossoming. I'm convinced we've got too much shade. Dangit! Hope you're willing to share some of those peas and zucchinis...
