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Lee:
How is everyone's garden doing this year?

So far my peas are about 2 foot tall
Beans are still under 4" high (lost 4-5 plants to the crows)
Squash is up to two real leaves
Cabbage is very sporadic - some are 1" tall and others are 8" (lost 6-8 plants to the crows)
Spinach is about ready for initial take
I've cut enough brocolli for 2 servings
My blueberry bushes have a ton of berries, but won't be ripe for months (looks like my daughters took out a branch with the soccer ball though!)
The strawberry bushes are in full swing, ate 3 of them yesterday.  Big, fat, sweet and tart. 

Hopefully the weather keeps on like this with 4-5 day spurts of good sunshine.  Last year wasn't nearly enough and the garden was not so great.

Spot:
I've been feeding from mine for a month now.

Lettuce will be going to seed soon
Radishes have all been eaten
Corn is knee high
Beans are 4' plus up their strings
Sugar Peas have been Mmm Mmm good and still going strong
1st squash and zuch's are showing up on the vines
1st Artichokes are ready for harvest

This has been a great year!  Much different story from last year at this time.

jim-dawg:
Wife started one this year, of course I was stuck with all the prep work of turning a 30 by 40 ft. patch of backyard lawn into a somewhat resemblance of a garden.  5 tomato plants of different variety, 4 growing on one and 5 growing on another, with lots of blossoms.  The other 3 are little starts that were buried (what the wife calls planting)  this last week-end.  One of the two eight-ball squash plants have 2 growing with half a dozen blossoms and the other one has 4 blossoms.  The 2 rows of "greasy beans"  (a generations old Kentucky strain of bean) are doing well now that we have mass murdered the little slugs for a week straight.  They are about 4 inches tall and almost reach the climbing net.  Lots of herbs, some thriving and some struggling.

polepole:
Harvested my first squash on Sunday.  Tomatoes are 4 feet tall and bearing green fruit.  Peppers are 2-4 feet talk and bearing green fruit.  Cucumbers are lagging.  Damn bugs got most of my bean sprouts, got to replant.

-Allen

Lee:
Forgot about the tomatoes, roma plant is about 2 feet tall, the heirloom is about 3 feet.  Both have flowers, no fruit yet.

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