The garden is growing

A month after planting the first seeds, they're finally starting to look like something I'd buy at the grocery store. The sugar snap vines are starting to take over the trellis that I put up, but they're kind of lanky and fall over a lot. The beets aren't as lanky, but they fall over even more. My favorites are the spinach and butter lettuce, with carrots coming in a close third. The spinach and lettuce leaves, I think, are really pretty (especially the spotted lettuce). The carrot tops look like a mini forest. See more photos of the veggies here.

Also, on the bus home from the garden, a couple girls were doing what I can only describe as "speed talking." Kind of like the Micro Machines guy in the 90s, except they were having a conversation. Well, it was more like they were trying to talk over each other (and loudly), but they could understand each other. It was pretty amusing. And then they got into a fight with a preaching drunk.


Pretty lettuce.


A row of baby spinach.


Carrots!