It has been a while since we toured the garden together, so I am very excited to share this tour {and general update} with you! As you’ll quickly see, the garden is growing and for the most part everything is happy. We did lose some of the tomatoes we set out, but since we planted 60+ in the beginning, I think we’ll still be okay. I know we all want to see the garden rather than merely read about it, so let’s get into the photo tour!

We tried a new variety of pea this year that promised to be “petite but prolific.” So far, the petite is spot-on, and we’re waiting to see how prolific they are. I can confirm they are delicious however.

Growing Marvel of Venice green beans again, and the vines are beautiful. I’m on bloom-watch, and looking forward to that first mess of beans.

This is the best our potatoes have ever looked. Fingers crossed such gorgeous greens mean there’s a good potato harvest in the making!

Our squash and broccoli are also extremely happy, and the squash has started blooming!

We planted more than a dozen cucumbers, and a few did get frost-nipped by a weirdly late frost, but I’m hoping we’ll still have more than enough for devouring and pickle-sharing.

You can see both the way we expanded the garden and how we’ve gotten our young plants settled. Strawberry baskets make the best covers for transplants: allowing airflow and water, but preventing the wind {or frost} from absolutely destroying them before they’re established.

After a rocky start and losing a few, the tomatoes are starting to do their thing.

The onions also had a hard time: voles/moles discovered the growbags and nearly took out the onion crop rooting around. Thankfully the onions are rebounding.

Our kale and cabbages have been ridiculously happy, and we’re just about ready to harvest our first cabbage! The kale we’ve been munching on already {as have the chickens}.

After a good haircut, the sage is absolutely showing off this Spring.

The peppers are ready for the weather to stabilize and stay a bit warmer – we keep sling-shotting between the 80s and the 60s, with some very cool overnights. Next garden update they’ll probably have grown enough to look like something.

We’ve also recently sowed some Tiger-eye beans {my first time growing for dried beans}, a little patch of experimental sweet corn, and some watermelons.

This is such an exciting time of year in the garden: every day when we water, or walk the rows, you can see the growth and development occurring. We’ve been eating kale salads and devoured our first batch of peas, but it won’t be long before we’re able to eat so much more fresh garden goodness. I can’t wait!

If you’ve been able to start your garden, how does it grow?
If you haven’t been able to start your garden yet, what are you most looking forward to?
Have you ever grown dried beans before?