Everything's Coming Up Roses

Would you believe cucumbers and radishes and lettuce?

Dianna's developing a real green thumb with her new raised bed garden. The stuff is veritably springing up.

It'll be no time at all and we'll have to approach that area only with a sharp machete to be able to hack our way through.

Veggies Springing Out of the Ground

I hope this is a sign of things to come as far as veggies growing in our garden. If everything comes up like this and keeps growing, why we'll be eating healthier than we ever have. Ewell Gibbons (remember him?) eat your heart out!

I can just see it now… Several varieties of lettuce, and spinach, cucumbers, and this and that and… Lord only knows what else. We may grow enough that we'll have to trade with our neighbors for stuff that we don't grow. What a new (and healthful) experience this all could be.

Cucumbers Sprouting

We might even have to take lessons on carrying our produce from the 'radish lady'. She's a little, elderly lady, who speaks no English but has a nice smile and always says "Buenos Dias" each time we walk by.

She walks to and from her farm south of us just about every day and then she goes from there into town to the market, carrying the produce she's harvested in a large pan balanced on her head. Maybe we'll have to get our own stall at the market.

And More Veggies Popping Up

If you're wondering, the green netting stuff in each of the photos was a well-intentioned but totally ineffective tool to keep April out the the garden beds and to prevent her from doing her own gardening. Thankfully, Regina will be coming back and is bringing a couple packs of bird netting which we'll be able to put to good use, not only to keep April out, but the birds as well.

Well, I guess, before we construct the stall and all that, maybe we should see if we actually get a crop of veggies coming to maturity, or if we just manage to grow a healthy crop of weeds. Time will tell.