The Dale Fam x 4: Gardening

So I'm finally blogging about my garden....sorry if I've told you about it 25,000 times already.....

Here is where we started. Tiny little plot, previously overgrown with English ivy. (Thought: are anglophobics afraid of English ivy?)

First we planted the Jalepeno plants (Matt is taking the picture....haha)


Then things started to grow...


Growing....

Watermelon...


Okra in the middle


And suddenly (or after a few months....) it began taking over the yard!

Here's how the jalepenos start....beautiful little white flower

Then the little bloom falls off and cutie pepper appears.

And when they get big enough, you pull them off and make hot sauce out of them....or jalapeno cornbread.....or pickled jalapenos.....or......

In the next spot, we had green beans. See the pretty little bean blossom?

Then the blossom falls off and little bitty beans start growing.....

Then the beans get big, and you pick em, cook em, and eat em! David doesn't like green beans, but he has eaten the ones from our garden. He says they are the best he's ever had!

Next to the beans are the cantaloupes. See the tiny little baby in the middle?


And when they start looking like this, you start getting excited about eating them.....

Continuing in alphabetical order (excluding the jalapenos, that's how I planted my stuff....I know.....totally not garden-y, and completely dorky!) - Okra. They start in a little flurry of tiny okra blossoms....

And get a little bigger every day....

And one day they look almost ready, and the next day they are more than ready! You pretty much have to pick okra every other day. Otherwise the okra get too big and too hard to eat; and the plants decide they are done producing.