(clockwise from the top) My sage & oregano plants came back in full force this year; I bought two bell pepper plants and a watermelon plant the other day...hopefully, I'll be planting them in the next day or two...its on my garden "to do" list; I planted two types of lettuce this year... mint green romaine on top and lighter green salad bowl lettuce on bottom. 
As you can see, I've enlarged my garden this year. This picture is probably only a third of it. The sugar snap peas are climbing the vine in the back. The stake (to the left) is marking the yellow summer squash I planted and the clusters in front (there are actually two, although the one on the left is much bigger) are zucchini and cucumbers.
My little corn plants. I planted five, so we'll see how it goes. I figured it would be fun to try to grow it and best case scenario is we get lots of fresh corn on the cob (yum!) and worse case scenario is we still get corn stalks to decorate our porch on halloween!
Sugar Snap Peas ~ They seemed to have appeared overnight!
I have two tomatoes growing... yay!~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We added a new member to our family this spring! Cade Thomas was born May 20, 2008. Suffice it to say, the garden took a bit of a back seat. I tried to compensate ahead of time by making sure my seeds were planted well before my due date, however the weather decided not to cooperate. I'm still a novice gardener and learning new things all the time. What I learned this year is that planting early only helps if the sun is shining. Out here in the Pacific Northwest, that seems to be our biggest obstacle. This year was especially difficult because while the rest of the country had record high temperatures, we had record lows. I even heard a local farmer comment on tv (he was being interviewed by the local news) that his wife had nicknamed the month of June "June-uary".However, now that the garden finally seems to be taking off, I'm getting very excited about it. I tried some new vegetables this year: sugar snap peas, tomatoes, zucchini, corn and bell peppers. Actually, I thought I was trying bell peppers last year, but the plants that came up were not pepper plants. Not sure if there was a mix-up at the seed packaging factory or what.... we never did determine what on earth those plants were. I also just picked up a watermelon plant. Not sure if I'll actually be able to grow a watermelon, but thought it would be fun to try and Gavin is extremely excited about it! Back by popular demand (my family's, that is) are cucumbers (oh those were so good last year!), green beans, yellow summer squash and lots and lots of herbs!
