Believe it or not, folks, Andria and Jason can actually grow food. We are not eternally cursed with brown thumbs, just slightly ungreen thumbs....

How it all began...

After pulling weeds by the ton, Jason made some beds to prevent Andria from stepping on too many plants...
This was the stage where we felt like we were only watering dirt and nothing would ever grow, maybe April??

Things actually grew!! In May we were already eating lettuce, and watching the onions, tomatoes, corn, and tons of other plants start growing.

We started really collecting food around late June to early July. The garden looks more like a jungle in places.

(lefthand box, front to back): onions, lettuce, and squash/zucchini by the trellis
(righthand box): corn, tomato plants, and pepper plants (can't see them so well

(nearest box, left to right): pole beans growing on a teepee, basil, nasty cilantro plant, cantelopes and watermelon

(foreground): watermelon and cantelope plants, before the bugs set in and it hailed
(center box, left to right): corn, tomato plants before they became too big, pepper plants