Our potatoes are exploding out of the barrels I put them in, lettuce is about to take over the garden, and seeds are finally sprouting. By the end of summer we should be enjoying a pretty bountiful harvest. Hopefully soon we will get our eggplant and squash into the ground.
The main garden on planting day...
...and after a couple of weeks.
Our broccoli, with wee florets inside. Soon, we will have more broccoli than anyone would ever want to eat in a lifetime. Oops, did I give away your Christmas surprise?
We thought the seeds were history. Katherine blamed me. Now they are sprouting. But do I get any thanks? Nope.
When we moved in, this flower box on the front porch was filled with dead plants and useless potting soil, and was more or less rotting away since there was no drainage of any sort. Now it is full of herbs and marigolds, and we'll be the family to ruin it, by God!
Pots full of taters.
I've already banked (added dirt to) them twice. And we thought the radiation treatment wouldn't have any side effects!
Two weeks ago, this garlic was just bulbs. Now, it's just bulbs and big long leaf things.
At the Seattle Green Festival, we got a free packet of sugar snap peas from one of the booths. We don't really eat that many peas, but I planted some nonetheless. Boom. These were probably the fastest growing things we planted. This growth was after only a week or so. They should be climbing all over our patio railing before too long.
When we moved in, the previous tenants had thoughtfully left us piles of useless junk. Among the odds and ends we inherited was a pot with a dead plant in it. When I went to throw out this poor deceased chap, I noticed a tiny green sprout among the dead brown leaves. I transferred it into a hanging pot and it greened right up. 
And now, voila, mucho growth on a very healthy strawberry plant.
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