Garden update

So the garden is going great! Everything is coming about, the one thing we can really grow without effort is weeds! We have tried mulch and newspaper but we have received so much rain! The best we can do is clear the weeds from the plants so we can actually see them! I am excited about a few things, the flowering plants of course the broccoli, tomatoes, carrot, and some of the peppers have begun. I am really excited to see the eggplant it is probably the one thing I am looking forward to most and I will probably take a bunch of pics.
broccoli up top and carrot below

I almost always underestimate Andrew and he always proves me wrong.
Yesterday we transplanted some rhubarb (gorgeous plant by the way) from Summer's uncle Harland's garden and I was kind of worried that he didn't know what he was doing. To my surprise he of course looked it up and made sure he knew what he was doing. It was one of those magical moments when you are genuinely proud of your friends, I flipping love that kid! The rhubarb was beautiful inside out as well! There was this protective outer casing of decomposing root that smelled so sweet and earthy, we got about three of them from one rhubarb stalk root thing. That is what you plant! The root thing, it was so alien but beautiful at the same time. I wonder how people figured out that is how you transplant rhubarb!

We had walked from uncle Harland's house to the garden and on our way we admired a small garden growing in the strips of earth on the edge of a parking lot, they had everything from squash to melons and it turned out to be my home teacher Tad's garden and he came out to show us around. I guess he had a real bird problem so he got some fake lizards to scare them away, I thought they were cute but Andrew didn't want to scare away our precious quail. I had to take a few pics of them!


Our quail daddy, he wouldn't let me get very close before barking at me.
After our visit with Tad we met another gardener on our way and his garden was magnificent! It was planted in swirl pattern, swirls of beets or lettuce, peas and onions all in a swirl and I thought to myself "now that is an artist!" we got the chance to meet him after we passed his garden, he seemed a little loopy, just like his garden. I really love others gardens as well as ours I love the automatic connection you have with someone who grows things just like you! We give tips to each other and compliment one another on the quality of soil or color and size of beet greens. My advice usually comes in the form of a plug for the farmers market. Enjoy the rest of the pics!!
This was not originally our idea for growing the peas, this garden has been here for a couple years and Andrew's brother Scott grew around this bike wheel first, we just copied him.

OK this is a bunch of squash that we did not plant. We figured out that it had been left over from last year's crop and whatever was here decomposed and left it's seeds, then we used the rototiller, thus planting them unintentionally, we think they are acorn squash. We have found various squash plants all around the garden and transplanted them here and there, we are going to have a butt load of squash. I joke with Andrew that we will have to find unlocked cars to put the excess in during the night.

My corn! That looks just like grass! I pulled up a few on accident.

Andrew pruning the fruit tree, I made him do it because I was afraid of spiders. I pruned for about 10 Min's before I gave up. I DON'T LIKE SPIDERS!