In The Garden

It's been a while since I took pictures of the garden, so I took a few more today of some of the products of our labor... Plucked our first cucumber today and we'll eat it when it gets cold... THAT one isn't going to Spaz! Here are some pictures:

Big crookneck squash... mmmm!

A little cucumber peeking through the leaves...

We had had the cucumbers climbing up a trellis like the watermelons are doing, and they didn't like it, so we pulled out the trellis and put the vines back on the ground and they are so much happier!

These are two of our little watermelons!

We started them growing up a trellis because I planted too many of them in the little 4x4 box, and I couldn't bear to pull any of them up! The ones growing up the wire are little sugar baby melons, so they won't get very big and the panty hose will be able to support them until they can be harvested... so cute!

Here is a big watermelon hidden in the leaves...

Here is the brocolini starting to come in!

So exciting! There is nowhere to find broccolini in Joplin, and the little kids love love love broccoli!

We also have three different kinds of tomatoes coming in... it is hard to know how many tomatoes I am getting, because anytime there is a ripe apple, Asa plucks it and eats it! He eats tomatoes like apples!

Speaking of apples...

By the deck we have a huge apple tree, and the branches are drooping with apples! Not sure what kind they are, but they are about the size of baseballs right now!

I have to include a couple of pictures of what the kids are doing... Seven and I went to get Maggie at the end of her Missouri Fine Arts Academy stay. She was SO excited to see her big sister!

Asa had a tennis tournament last weekend, and he won his first match! We are so proud of how much he is growing through his tennis. He has great coaches who are helping him to mature as a person and not just a player. He is an honest player who is very gracious to his opponent. Oh... and Jack took this picture! He is really enjoying the camera!