Spring, explosion

I realized last night that our garden is really starting to look like a garden (not just bare soil dominated by sprouts of dandelion and thistle). Spinach is really getting huge, the romaine lettuce looks like miniature heads like you would find at the grocery store; sugar snaps peas are climbing beyond the top of my poor trellises; herbs are exploding with flowers. The 3 different squash have sprouted in place and will soon be spreading several feet in every direction. What really offers some vertical structure to the beds are the tomato cages around the four transplants and a smaller cage around my recently transplanted hot pepper.

I still haven't planted my Kentucky Blue pole beans--I'm avoiding because I haven't figured out how to trellis them yet... Also, I still have about 1 cubic yard of pine bark mulch in the middle of my driveway. Hopefully soon I'll expand some more garden beds in the front yard if only just to get rid of the mulch. Of course some will probably go to enhance our compost as well.