What a difference a month makes

Back on May 29th, the garden looked like this:

And now on June 26th, less than 1 month later, it looks like this:

Zucchini starting to form

And Summer Squash too

Sugar Snap Peas in peak form

Planted directly into last year's compost pile, this Sungold cherry
tomato plant is already over 5 ft tall!

In between there were some scares:

A bug I had never seen before, these Tortoise Beetles are cute but eat through potato and
tomato leaves. The boys and I hand-picked them each day for a week or so off the plants and that
pretty much took care of them - no (real) damage done.

Over 8 inches of rain in 3 days (including 6 inches in 24 hr period)
left the garden area flooded, and a panicked Farmer Benny Boy
fearing that the garden wouldn't recover. Fortunately, it survived
the storm and a few sunny days later was back to normal.
I have one or two of these (usually) unnecessary garden panics
every year, but the garden (usually) proves pretty resilient.
The raised beds definitely helped this year though!

The water level was actually a few inches higher right after the storm,
this was taken a couple days later after much of the water had sunk in.

But mostly fun:

Daddy helps the boys plant their tomato plant in Ethan's garden

All by himself and without any prompting, Ethan raked his garden
area clean and made a compost pile "just like Daddy's"
by collecting dried leaves from the woods and mixing in our
kitchen food scraps. I couldn't have been more proud!

Ethan was pretty proud of himself too!

And, of course, enjoying our harvest:

The arugula is mostly buried under the beets and goat cheese
but we've had 4 (I think) of these delicious salads so far this season
and a couple others of just arugula.
We've also had 10 (or more) lettuce salads so far (not pictured)
and the lettuce is still going strong (arugula nearing the end, but I
will plant more soon).

First meal of sugar snap peas (with some broccoli side shoots (also
from the garden) sprinkled in) - yum!