The garden is looking awesome. Yeah – I said it. The beetles did a number on the bean leaves, but the plants are still alive and producing.  Since I can’t use insecticide I hand-pick and squish other critters that I find, but so far nothing else has done serious damage. All of my tomato plants have little starter maters, the potatoes are flowering and the corn is even coming up.  That’s right – corn. A stretch of my gardening wings, I know, but I have the space and after reading the back of the seed packet, corn is planted seed to ground. It doesn’t transplant well. So I dropped in a couple rows and we’ll see what happens. According to my mid-western coworker I’m aiming for knee-high by the Fourth of July.

The toughest part of gardening right now is practicing patience. I can see everything growing and it all looks incredible, but it’s just too soon. Last week I was at the garden and eager to enjoy the vegetables of my labor, I started pulling off beans to eat with dinner. The grand harvest resulted in 4 beans apiece for Mike and me. Not exactly bringing home the veggie-bacon...