Late Spring Harvests

I did just post last night, but I wanted to share some exciting news today! I ate my first sugar snap pea! oh boy was it tasty. Every morning when I go out to check things I graze a little. Some lettuce, a few brocoli heads, maybe some fennel and I check the strawberries. I've gotten one or two strawberries, but I forgot to look the last couple of days so today I got: (this is from my little old patch, the new bed is still just growing roots (thats what I tell myself, but there are a few little strawberries on)

THEY ARE SOOOO GOOOD! some aren't as sweet as others but the flavor in even a tiny berry is just amazing!

Here are the peas (its overcast today but my phone doesn't do well on bright days either). I had already eaten the pea so I don't have a picture of it. I should have two more ready to pick in a day or two:

The lettuce has gone crazy. I need to pick more and give it away, any takers around here, just let me know....

Heres a couple of pictures of the tree garden all planted. I still have to decide how many of the sunflowers I left to pull up since i don't really want them to shade the other things. I also put in a close up of the painted lady daisies. They are a great pretty perenial (the flowers start out the dark pink and fade as they age to the light pink) and pretty easy.

This is the other side of the shade garden that I didn't put in the last post:

Here is the stump garden currently. I haven't filled it in with annuals yet, thats on today's list after the front sun garden is filled in. I also included a picture from this spring after I had cleaned it off for a compare and contrast photo.

Lastly, here are some pictures of my soon to be very bountiful produce: tomato (pink brandywine), baby zuchinii, and a sweet pepper (this one had two labels, manchurian red and ivory bell, the color leans to the ivory but the shape is more like the manchurian).

I just got a fuzzy grass head and tried to help polinate a few more tomatoes and tomatillos, speaking of tomatillos, apparently they reseed themselves pretty well if you leave some unpicked ones on the vine after frost, or throw overripe ones on the ground....

look how big everything is getting!

My potatoes, onions, eggplant are all growing fast.

Pole beans are now up. I transplanted many of them where two came up to the spots where none. I had to use slug bait as a night time stake out pointed out who was eating my beans (and parsley and marigolds- not eating cilantro)