How does the garden grow?

When we were looking for a house - we found a nice "vintage" property that we purchased just before Thanksgiving 2008.  Until mid-March - all our time was spent working inside and we gave little thought to the blank canvas that was waiting for us outside.   When the weather started to change - our focus shifted outside and with a few days work - two new garden areas were built.   The driveway garden is narrow that was planted with green beans, peas, carrots, onions and cucumbers.   In the back lot, a raised garden was planted with 4 varieties of tomatoes, raspberries, asparagus and peppers.   The lacy fern-like growth of the asparagus reminds me of the times my grandmother and I harvested it as it grew wild on the ditches near their farm.   For grins - a couple hills of watermelon and cantaloupe have been added to the mix.   The recent heat has really helped everything take off - it is fun to see!

June 7th was the first bean harvest (and a few peas) from the driveway bed.  The beans were DELICIOUS slow cooked with some bacon, onion powder and garlic salt!    Another harvest is coming soon and they were so good - we planted two more packages of seeds!

The peas are a different story.  After a "harvest" of about 10 pods - we decided to over-plant this section with  beans.....  maybe next year for the fresh peas!

I had hoped for at least one fresh home-grown tomato by the 4th of July - but that doesn't look like it will happen.   All plants are loaded with green tomatoes so we are waiting.... patiently (sort of).