The garden is our favorite project every year - because you can eat it! I guess spending the earliest part of my life on a ranch and running out each night to cut asparagus (with a rusty old knife) gave me a love for growing things. I think our garden back then was bigger than most subdivision lots these days, and I remember digging up the potatoes and picking corn. The above picture is cukes (on the tomato cages) and watermelons.
Some of our tomatoes (tall) - we've got about 6 plants going - but I need to get a few more in. I use the boards between rows to help keep the kids off of the plants.
My first watermelon! I'm watching this little baby like a hawk.
Green beans - they're eaten right off the plant - never make it to the kitchen! The kids also eat the tomatoes like apples right off the vine. At least it's healthy. The sugar snap peas are still going in the shade, it's too hot otherwise. And, we have lots of cukes too. I never got to planting the corn in the back of the garden - the kids favorite every year, but I may try after the hottest part of June is past. In FL, you can plant year round, which is nice.
Although I had a late start for Florida, at least, where you have to start in February, all of our veggies are doing well --- Daniel and Robert built me this gorgeous fence (better than the leftover chicken wire I was going to try to rope it off with! I'm from TX, so chicken wire is like duct tape!). It keeps out Lucy and the kids when I'm not there to supervise. This is our 5th year for the garden (homeschoolers!) and probably the smallest b/c I've been super-busy, but we're going to expand it in July. BTW the red bush growing along the back is actually the neighbor's, but it is home to hundreds of butterflies in the fall. 
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Ohhhh, I am trying so hard not to be jealous! =) I can't wait until I have a larger lot to be able to plant my own fruit/vegetable/herb garden. For now, I just have some herbs sitting in a window.
What kind of pesticides do you use? Do you get something organic? I'm going to have to get with you for some gardening tips. Unfortunately, I didn't grow up on a farm, so I don't know a whole lot about growing stuff like that. =)
You could grow plenty just along the backside of your house - without too much room. Fish emulsion is good organic fertilizer (it stinks for a day or so, turn over the soil to kind of bury it) sometimes i do use a little miracle grow. as for pests, just a squirt bottle of soapy water. Tomatoes, peppers, cukes and beans do great around here.
Wow! We have talked about starting a garden and this might provide some inspiration. Other than weeds, we are growing a pineapple plant, which is doing rather well at the moment.
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