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I posted pics a while back on the veggie garden I started this year. Here's the updated garden!

Before, I didn't even have all 6 beds built, but they're all finished now. I also have a little fence around the whole thing to keep rabbits out. I found rabbits in and around my yard so I researched how to keep em out of the veggies and a 2 foot high fence is the recommendation. Each of the garden beds is 8 feet long, 4 feet wide.

Off to the right hand side of the veggie beds, by the fence, are the blackberry canes my sister and I planted. We thought they would die off this year aboveground but that the roots would live and send out shoots next year. We were wrong! All but one of the canes put out leaves and three of the six canes have flowered as well. This is the one that's furthest along...there's little berries there! If all the canes produce blackberries we might get a whole handful this year

But that's a lot more than the nothing we expected!

Here are the tomatoes. We have several varieties going. We did lose a few plants to wind, but we have replanted most of them. You can't see it, but there are seedlings coming up in the bare spot in the front, and we have a couple containers just behind the tomato bed also. In the close-up, these are the tomatoes furthest along. They're the Snow White variety and are a cherry-size tomato. I don't know why they call them snow white because they ripen to a nice golden yellow. These are already starting to turn yellow. I can't wait!

Now for the peas and carrots...my pride and joy! I've never grown either but they're both thriving. I've actually harvested some of the peas already...omg sooooo tasty. They're sugar snap peas so you eat the pod and everything. The peas in the close-up aren't ready to be picked but it'll only be another day or two before they are ready!

Here are the corn and beans. Some of the corn is springing up a lot faster than the other plants, but they're all growing and seem to be doing well. It's been a bit chillier this spring than I expected so they probably won't be ready as soon as I hope but I'm still pleased with the progress thus far. The bean plants are the leafy things in between the 3 rows of corn.

Lastly, here are the peppers and cucumbers (peppers to the right, cukes to the left). The cukes have just started to grow but the peppers are already beginning to flower. I didn't think the pepper plants would make it because I really botched hardening them off when I transferred them from the indoor pots to the outdoor garden. But they seem to have recovered, for the most part! lol

There are two beds I didn't do a closeup of. One I am planting watermelons in today, and the other one has New Zealand spinach in it. The spinach has sprouted but it's still pretty tiny so not worth taking pics of I think hehe.

I'm just so very pleased with how the garden is turning out this year. It's a lot of firsts for me and I have definitely learned an immense amount!

My girls also love to help in the garden, especially the 2 year old. I have actually provided her with a couple containers of dirt for her to dig in and a tiny watering can, so she can "garden" without ruining the real thing

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