Things tend to grow when we aren't watching, don't they? Children, flowers, and ant beds! It has also been raining frequently here lately so the garden has gown in double time and the ant beds grow higher to get out of the water! We'll take it while we can get it, come summer we'll probably slip into drought conditions!

As you might recall, my dear husband made me an above ground garden planter. Here's a blog about it: Trying to change my thumb color

Well, since then, I've had to replant some seeds due to dog disasters and child-made disasters and then we made a disaster of our own when we very stupidly put our ::huge:: planter over a sprinkler head in our back yard. LOL We haz the dumbz sumtimez. My husband spent an entire weekend re-routing my sprinkler head to pop out about 2 feet higher so it wouldn't flood my garden or mangle my plants with its harsh spray. Where it is now, it mists the garden nicely and still waters the rest of its zone as well. Yay for Mr. Handy Pants!

Anyway, we have persevered and the plants are doing very well. I have even been really excited lately because I have several plants that are starting to bloom! Ask anyone, I'm pretty sure the plants do that before they make the yummies come out! So far, my black berry bush, my green beans and my peas have bloomed. I'm really thrilled. My peas are going nutso on their little trellis, I think I need a larger one, they're growing out of it now (top picture).

I have the tiniest parsley (left) I've ever seen, but I know it will grow and probably take over the whole garden bed by next year. I should have planted it in a pot, I think.

I don't know that I had ever seen a pea blossom before, but I have lately and I am in awe over their beauty. These little flowers hang down like bells and have the sweetest gentle frilly petals of the purest white. I usually go nuts over roses, I love how they smell, but visually, these peas are just so beautiful to me. So delicate and lovely (see below!)

But all of my corn, lettuce, and broccoli (pictured below) is growing nicely. Not as quickly as I would have expected, but still relatively well, I guess. My corn is growing, but I have a hunch that it will not produce anything this year. I don't think it is getting tall fast enough. We shall see! I have heard that there is almost nothing better than home grown corn. I'd love so much to test that theory.

My tomatoes have finally sprouted (below). None of the seeds I planted took, but I threw out some rotten grape tomatoes I has in the kitchen and they grew! I'm not worried about them being delayed in the season, from previous experience, I know tomatoes continue to produce until the frost kills them here. They have a long while to catch up!

The dog and the kids have stayed out of the garden now and the bugs haven't started feasting on anything yet. No bunnies and no birds have trespassed either.

Oh! My mammoth sunflowers are getting huge too! I'll take pictures of my sunflowers when they're more photogenic. Green stalks with petals are pretty, but I'm holding out for the good stuff that will come later.

Gardening is going well, very rewarding! I'm looking forward to having to buy a lot less produce later this summer and I might even have enough to share with the neighbors! Everyone should try this.......or so I'm saying so far! Check back later in the summer! LOL

Have a blessed day!