Before/After

Returning to the garden after ten days away was awesome. Still slightly too jetlagged to write anything clever, so here are some before/after shots.

First, the beets. In this case the earlier photo is probably from about a month back; the second is from today:






Soybeans; the first photo is from just before I left; the second is from today:






Beans: The first is from about a month ago, the second from just before I left, and the third from today:







And a bean flower - no "before" picture of this!




So here's the whole garden, before and after my trip - amazing what happens in under two weeks. Check out the height difference in the cucumbers (on the trellises toward the right):





In other news, I pulled up some carrots and we had them with dinner! Very exciting. I had to leave the dirt on for the photo so you could tell I didn't just go buy these at Whole Foods in a James-Frey-like moment of desperate fakery: