The garden grows 3

The garden is coming along so nicely! I get so excited when I see the area getting greener and greener as the space fills up. Everything is doing really well, and we don't have any pests to speak of!

The flowers are all doing really well too. I'm surprised since the dirt in around the flowers is eroding away through the rocks every time we water. So I've been trying to lightly sprinkle the water over them from high up to minimize the water impact. It seems to be working. Next year (or maybe later this summer), I'd like to do something to keep the dirt from eroding through the rocks. I'd also like to get some mulch for around the flowers, bark or rock chips...

But before we get to that, we need to finish the sprinklers. We got a GREAT start on them this weekend. My dad and Phil came over and we got the first (main grass area) zone done and started the side grass zone on Saturday. After we finish that, hopefully next weekend, we can get the grass started and edge out some flower beds! I am so excited to finally have the back yard looking like a back yard. It is so hot and dusty back there now. I CAN'T WAIT to have grass!

Corn and Japanese "Ichiban" eggplant

Tomatoes. Still just one roma growing. There are many, many flowers though, so I'm expecting more tomatoes any time....

The lettuce keeps growing and growing and growing.... And it's so tasty. We've been eating a LOT of salads. I still think I may need to pull up half of it and start a new crop (spaced better) before this gets too out of hand.

Green beans. Doing pretty well. There are a lot of new leaves growing. No flowers yet.

Green beans closer up....

Left to right: carrots, basil from seed, bell peppers, basil from starter plants... The basil is doing incredibly! We have been picking it and putting it in a lot of salads and I added it to a homemade salad dressing. So yummy. It did start flowering, :( so we had to "pinch off" many of the tops of the plants, but that should keep them growing leaves for a lot longer. At least while we wait for our seed basil to get bigger.

The broccoli seems well. It's getting very big. I have no idea how long until we actually have "broccoli", but the leaves are getting massive.

The cucumber plants we got from Mike's work are getting big. I'm worried that the cucumbers, zucchini and squash are WAY too close to each other....

Butternut squash. I hope this grows well. I would love to make some butternut squash ravioli or soup.

My sad zucchini plant. We started this from seed in March. It's green and has a flower or two, but the stem looks dead. I don't get it at all....

I can't believe that my seed lavender is growing. It growing very slowly, but I think it's going to make it. I LOVE lavender. I put a few of my larger plants out front in 16" pots and put lighting in them. I'll put pictures up next week.

The flowers:

Don't remember what these are called, but they're the ones that I posted last week that had a few buds on them.... They bloomed beautifully!

The blue camanula. Still blooming. I love this one!

Cactus thing with tiny flowers. I had no idea it was going to get flowers. So cute!

My "lotus blossom" is still growing babies.

Not sure what this is doing, but I like it!