We are having babies!

...in our garden! Our plants are going nuts and enjoying this crazy weird wet summer we have been having. You can see how small the the veggie garden started off and how the house plants were looking when they were released to the outside in May here.

Our "weird plant" (no idea what it is called) recently put out a new shoot....

The larger aloe plant my grandpa gave me is having babies. Not sure if I should try to move them or just let them be (open to any advice here).

The cycad has had twins since being outside, we are very happy about this. It had a rough winter inside with the cats (all those poor dead ends) and we will need to find it a safer place this winter.

The veggie garden is doing well. We tried to transplant some beans when they started to choke out the tomatoes and peppers, and that pretty much failed. We we started over with the beans in a box all to themselves. They are very happy there.

We currently have three peppers, one of which is turning red.

We also have about five tomatoes, although they are still pretty small and green.

We even have had a sunflower bloom, the offspring of a rouge seed from the bird feeder. It was big before I knew it so I just let it grow and was surprised Friday morning to have a beautiful sunflower in my side yard! I am looking forward to passing the seed it produces on to the birds and save some to plant next summer.

I am going to try some canning this summer/fall so we will see how that goes. Maybe next year we will try to grow more things!