Growing!

Our garden has exploded since we've been gone.  I'm simply amazed, and quite frankly, excited about it.  The spinach is doing great, as well as the cilantro.  Everything is still growing and will be harvested soon.  We've enjoyed spinach salads, spinach smoothies, spinach omelets, and spinach on sandwiches.  I also cut some of the beet greens off and sauteed them in a little olive oil and minced garlic - yum! 

Yesterday John and I put up the trellises for the peas, tomatoes, and cucumbers.  We made them from scratch, so it was quite the project.  I'm glad we won't have to mess with trellis netting until next year.  What a pain! 

 The kids like to help with cutting the veggies, so here is Abby with a strainer full of, yes, spinach. 

She knows that after we cut some we usually make smoothies, her favorite.  In this one we put in an orange, a nectarine, spinach, a banana, ice, and water.  It was SO good and refreshing!

 Do you see what I see?  That tiny thing is our first cucumber!  John pointed it out to me and the kids and I'm quite excited about it.  This beastly plant is slowly overtaking our garden box, but as long as it's producing something, I think I can be okay with that.

Here is our first cilantro (along with, yes, spinach).  I'm thinking cilantro-lime rice is in our future.  I've been doing a lot of recipe searches, just to find different things to put our veggies in.  I hate to waste anything, since it was a lot of work to get it all started.