In the few weeks since I last posted, our garden has grown like crazy! The sugar snap peas are almost to the top of the trellis we built (about 3 feet or so). The tomato and pepper plants look very hardy and have little blossoms starting to open. The pole beans and cucumbers are several inches tall and, after a slow start, our herbs have gotten going. The only issue we have had is with the bush beans. We soaked all the bean seeds (pole and bush) for 15 minutes or so prior to planting. The pole beans all shot up in no time. After waiting and waiting, one bush bean sprout (out of four seeds planted) shot out of the ground. It seriously went from zero to 2 inches over night. Since then it's been poking along. The other 3 seeds never made an appearance, and it didn't help that someone stepped in that part of the bed. A few days ago I decided to try again. I put the seeds in water and promptly forgot about them, so they got soaked for at least an hour and a half. No sign of any new sprouts yet, and I'm a little worried that the rapidly growing pole bean plants might be providing too much shade.
I should have some fantastic pictures to post soon because we just got a fancy new camera. I waiting for the card reader to arrive in the mail, so I can transfer the photos to the computer.
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