Those are the cucumbers, spinach, older peas, new peas, and compost bucket. Those were like a week or so ago. Here's what's cool (Apologies for blurry images, cell phone cam wasn't focusing well):
Those were taken just now. The peas are budding, the spinach sprouts have their first true leaves, the cucumbers appear to be budding (!) and the new peas and tomato plants are growing pretty darn well. Can't wait until those pea flowers bloom. I should have my first produce of the year in a few weeks if all goes well. Once it's warm enough I'll be planting more pole beans out there too. It's a shame that tree blocks all the sunlight; there are leaves already on it and as soon as they're big I won't be getting nearly this much sun. If those cucumbers are actually starting to get flower buds on them I don't even know what to think. They might just be side-shoots though, in which case I'm going to have to get my prune on pretty soon.
Oh yes, how about some recommended reading while I'm at it? Do you like pork? Bacon? Ham? I bet you do. Do you buy the cheap commercial pork at the grocery store instead of off a small family farm? I bet you do (so did I until now). Read Righteous Porkchop and I bet you won't any longer, unless you like the idea of Smithfield confining mother pigs in a cage they can't even turn around in with metal bars separating them from their own piglets or manure lagoons which are kept from spilling over (sometimes) by using what basically amounts to a shit-cannon to rocket untreated, liquefied pig manure into local waterways. Yeah, it really is that bad. I'm not done with the book yet but it's such a fantastic read and will open your eyes the same way Food, Inc. did (you did see Food, Inc. right?) So please, find this book and read it:
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