My How The Garden Grows!

So in May we decided to plan ourselves a little garden, well let me back up! We bought ourselves some seeds in April and started trying to do in indoor germination. Ha..this turned out to be a nightmare! We did finally get some to sprout, but after we placed them outside in the little mini green house we lost ALL of them to the WIND! I suppose that comes with our lack of gardening and paying attention to all the elements mother nature has to offer us. Anyway early May we made ourselves a small little garden space outside and bough some mini plants to pop in the ground. We planted strawberries, 2 different kinds of tomatos, anaheim peppers, bell peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe. There was a late freeze and we lost both cantaloupe and 1 of our 2 watermelon plants. In early June, we popped a few pumpkin seeds in the ground in place of those lost plants. To date, the strawberries have pretty much been laid to rest although the rest of the plants are thriving. Our one remaining watermelon is growing finally after that little freeze we nursed it through, no fruit has sprouted but the plant itself looks good. The pumpkins are amazing, the leaves are HUGE! We love our anaheim pepper plants and will grow these yearly! They taste so good and each plant produces numerous peppers so well worth it! We were pretty disappointed with the bell peppers as each plant has only produced one pepper and small peppers at that. The early girl tomatoes which are like a cherry tomatoe plant are doing great! They taste so good! The big beef tomatoes have a lot of big green tomatoes growing and we can't wait until these are ripe for the eating! We have had fun trying out our green thumbs and at least now we know we have the ability to grow things! I got a few pictures this morning when I was in the garden...
Here is a shot of the entire garden, it's small, but great! The weeds on the outside of the bed are crazy, but the garden itself has none!

Here are the crazy pumpkin leaves..

And the first sprouted pumpkin!

Anaheim Pepper

Our thriving tomatoe plants

Some of the yummy cherry tomatoes