I was looking at the last posted photos of my garden and realized that there has definitely been some growth in the last week! Since the last post, I have done the following:

07/06 Garden Day 51
Planted an additional tomato start (still growing from original batch of seeds)
Sowed pumpkin seeds and butternut squash seeds (saved from the fruit last year)
Sowed additional carrot and lettuce seeds (still had some sitting around)
Placed tomato cages in preparation for lots of growth
Thinned corn and onions

07/11 Garden Day 56
Planted a cayenne pepper start (I purchased an additional because only one pepper actually survived from seed)
Planted petunias around the edges for color accents (and for fun!)

07/16 Garden Day 61
I still haven't set up a soaker hose, which is starting to get annoying. I've been waiting for this gift card rebate in the mail from Lowe's that we received from our lawnmower purchase. I'm afraid that as soon as I go to Lowe's to buy garden supplies, it will show up in the mail.

The eggplant is growing but I don't know how big it will get and if I will actually get fruit. The pumpkin and squash seeds all came up, no problems! I am very excited about having pumpkins to carve for Halloween. The additional carrot and lettuce seeds did not sprout, but I'm not that surprised. The extra seeds were just sitting around so I figured I'd throw them out there.

The most exciting thing is the two tomato plants that are growing in my row of corn. These somehow sprouted from tomatoes that were left on the ground all winter, left over from last year's garden! I noticed these plants growing and they didn't look like weeds that normally grow in my yard, so I just left them. As they got bigger, I realized they were tomato plants! Now I will have a million tomatoes and have been thinking about doing some canning. My coworker told me that canning tomatoes was the easiest of all canning. I had sowed some additional tomato seeds (just because I had extra) and those are all doing really good too (still pretty small though).

The herbs are all doing really well. The mint is huge, basil looks good, dill is taller than the arborvitae, and the cilantro is still going considering how much I've trimmed off it (yum!).

I'm feeling much better now - I just wish I could eat something out there!

See Photo from Day 61

And for comparison:
See Photo from Day 45

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