A couple of days ago, Madison came running into the house to say “OMG MUM! WE HAVE PEAS AND THEY’RE ALMOST READY TO EAT!”, so I went out with my camera to investigate since I hadn’t been out to see the garden in about a week.

Before I get into the peas, let me tell you about the tomatoes…we’re going to have a LOT of them if all of these yellow blossoms are going to turn into tomatoes. Already with the cherry tomatoes we have baby ones but I didn’t see any yet on the bobcat plants. Both types of plants are monsters though, check it out:

You can tell which ones are the cherry tomatoes and which ones are the bobcats because the cherries have lots & lots of little yellow flowers and the bobcats have bigger versions of the same flowers but there are less of them. The plan for the tomatoes is of course to eat some of them, but we’re going to have more than we need, so we’re going to make salsa with them and jar it so Blake can eat it throughout the year, as opposed to buying it and it would also make nice, economical Xmas gifts for Phil, my uncle Paul and my mom’s boyfriend John. Now we just have to find a really good recipe for it, preferably a really hot/spicy one. I figure it shouldn’t be too hard and if all else fails, we can just use Jamie Oliver’s.

Next up is BEANS. MONSTER BEANS. We planted two rows of these because we really like them and they are growing like crazy. Right now they’re in bloom, but I forgot to take a picture of the weird flowers they have.

I’m not really sure how my peppers are doing because I don’t know how peppers grow and I threw out the seed packet so I can’t check. The plants didn’t grow very tall, but they have white flowers and a couple even have a pathetic looking baby pepper or two. Voila:

But the real monsters in my garden right now are the peas, which, as Madison said, are about a week or two from being able to pick. It’s as if as soon as we staked them, they got happy and made peas all over the place like, overnight! Look!

That last pic’s a little blurry but right now the sun’s right overhead and any pics I took out there right now would look like crap, so I’m not going to retake it. You get the point.

These peas are sugar snap peas, which means that they’re very sweet and the pods are edible. As soon as the peas inside the pods are, y’know, “pea sized”, they’ll be ready to pick, which the children will gleefully do.

Next year, definitely, we’re going to grow tomatoes, beans and peas but probably nothing else since the weeds in that bed are out of control and those 3 things seem to thrive despite it and those 3 things are things we really like. Next year we’re just going to grow more of them. The peas, just because the kids will eat them and like them, the beans so I can freeze them and the tomatoes so we can make sauce and salsa, pending the salsa experiment this year goes well.

So that’s the garden so far. :o)