Well, here we are 10 days into June. My garden is making some progress and I'm not bored of it yet. 

The West bed is looking good. The potatoes are the same height as the broccoli and look like they will start shading it soon. I thinned the radishes and squash today. They looked too crowded. I need to reseed carrots and plan to seed some lettuce under the trellis for the squash. The trellis that we still need to build.

The Middle bed is also looking good. The tomatoes look fantastic and a few plants have blooms. I finally picked up some more pepper plants and put them in the ground today. I bought a couple bell peppers (even though I don't really like them. Sally does, so I'll refer to them as "Sally's peppers"), Anaheim's and poblanos. Hopefully I will be roasting some peppers come fall. Yummy! I harvested some basil this week for homemade pizza and think I probably need to make some pesto soon. I planted some cilantro today. We'll see how long it takes me to screw it up. I have never had any luck with cilantro. I don't really know how and when to harvest it. 

The East bed is still looking pretty empty. The green beans are STILL popping their little heads out of the ground. The spinach looks good. Only a few of the loose red leaf lettuce germinated. Same with the kale. The butter crunch lettuce germinated better. The cucumbers look good. And of about 12 watermelon seeds planted, only 2 seeds actually panned out to become plants. Very disappointing. I think we might have one other watermelon plant in Alli's garden. 

I'm still trying to figure out the watering system. The West and Middle beds are mulched, which really holds in the moisture. The East bed is not. I have been waiting for all the seeds to come up. I think I need to cut my water losses and just get it mulched. I can't imagine much more is going to come up this late after planting. 

I also want to comment on how well our grass looks this year. I raised up the mowing deck and have been mulching the last 3 mows. I believe this has made the difference. We've had a few really hot days in the past 2 weeks and I notice a few areas that are looking a bit dry. I think I will try to water a little longer in those zones. It is probably time to get some more fertilizer on it too.

Red Potatoes

Broccoli

 Yellow Squash & Zucchini

 Radishes (or is the plural just radish?)

 Pumpkin...finally!

 Row of peppers.

 Tomatoes

 White onions...or are they yellow? I can't recall now.

 Herbs and a few puny marigolds.

 Red onions, which are kicking the pants off the other onions.

 Cucumbers

 Plot o' greens.

 Green beans that are STILL sprouting.

 Teeny tiny watermelon plants. Damn near as slow as carrots to sprout.

 Sidney's garden, whose pumpkins are the biggest of this entire project. I attribute it to the Miracle Grow potting soil in her garden. Perhaps I should rethink my stance on chemical fertilizers in my garden.

Alli's garden, whose 1st attempt at pumpkins and watermelon failed. So we reseeded and soon her will overtake mine too!