How Does Your Garden Grow?

Our garden is coming along quite nicely.  We have peppers, tomatoes and basil that Ron started from seeds indoors. Some of them are being eaten by some kind of bug, mostly the basil, but some are thriving. Hoping for a lot of big, juicy tomatoes! We also have some beans growing that we planted from seeds early on. They are beautiful and producing lots of beans.

The pictures below show some of the beds that are almost ready for planting. This area was just an flat space with nothing but weeds. Now we have raised beds and vegetables!

There is still a lot of work to be done. We need to figure out what pests are eating the basil and how to deal with them. We also planted some carrots, beets, lettuces and spinach and those never made it. As soon as they came up, something ate them. It seems to be an insect, not the rabbits or squirrels, because we can see holes in the leaves that are left.

Wild Cucumber

We have a pretty vine that started growing under and all around one of our oak trees as well as part of our fence.

We weren't sure what it was, but it was pretty, so we let it grow, wondering if it would produce any fruit or anything. Yesterday, we found this crazy spiky, green fruit on it, and decided that we had to know what it was. 

Turns out it is a wild cucumber. According to SF Gate it doesn't strangle the trees it grows on, so I guess we don't have to kill it, but perhaps we don't want to let it grow everywhere it wants to go.