I have been able to plant a garden for the first time in my life. Now being Az one never knows what will really grow or not so I just bought seeds of things I know will get used if it grows. So I have planted carrots, cucumbers, green beans, sugar snap peas, bell peppers, strawberry plants, tomato plants, lettuce, broccoli, beets, corn on the cob, pumpkins, grapes, cantaloupe, and watermelons. All are growing, however my lettuce is not doing as well as others plants, I think they have been drowned but I do have a few that look healthy. My pumpkin plants have started to grow it's first pumpkin and my cucumbers are growing like crazy. We have gotten a few beans and peas, with more starting to mature. I lost several of my pea plants, but I have been told that it is amazing that they are even growing at all since in AZ it is the wrong time for them. I was pulling weeds from my garden the other day and as I was backing out I got the surprise of my life. I saw these two HUGE cucumbers, they had turned yellow they were so big. Now I had checked periodically for cucumbers around nothing even close to being ready. So here is a picture of my cucumbers. There is only one big yellow one left the kids ate the other one before I got the picture, but the one they ate was actually bigger than the one in the pic. They look more like squash than cucumbers.
Awesome. I hope my garden does as well as yours is doing this year. So far the only thing that wants to grow is my spinach and my peas. I think now that most of the rain is gone and the sun is out things will change a little bit :)
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