Wow, okay, so this was the garden on April 22:

Aaaaand here it is today:

I KNOW, RIGHT??

I’m going away for ten days starting today, so I wanted to get one last look at the whole thing to see how it changes while I’m gone. Today the Beam’s Golden Pear Tomatoes started to ripen:

Don’t those look great? There are about a hundred more of them that are still green and will probably ripen while I’m away. D’oh! But I’m going to try to take a few with me to D.C. so Brian can try them.

Also starting to change colors are the Aurora Peppers:

They started out a deep, deep shade of purple but will turn yellow, then orange and red. I’ve got a ton of these plants, and I think they look so neat:

I’ve also got a whole bunch of rooster spur pepper plants growing in pots.

Some of the rooster spur plants have started to put on fruit, though only just:

Last night my mom came over and we went shopping, but first I gave her a bunch of leaves off my basil plants, which have FINALLY started to really take off:

So in ten days when we get back I imagine that all of this will be taking off and we’ll be able to enjoy the fruits of all this labor. In the meantime, our housesitting friend Casey, my mom, all the neighbors and friends are invited over to pull whatever ripens while we’re away. That’s one of the best parts of having a garden – getting to share the bounty with the people you love. I’m off to D.C. tonight and won’t be posting *as* regularly in the next ten days, though I do plan to try to do Daily Photo posts as regularly as possible. We’ll have two days next week without internet access, and I’m not making any promises, but I’m trying not to go away entirely. Enjoy your Fourth of July!