Beet thinnings!

It's been kind of low key excitement around the garden.  But here are some good pictures - most exciting are the beet thinnings.  This is a first of many harvests of actual edible beets.  Over the summer and in the years to come.  The whole beet is so delicious I actually ate a tip to tail one just rinsed from the dirt.

This is the view from by the garage.  Things are filling out - even the fava beans are blooming.  The sweet scent of the fava bean flowers is worth it for me.  I don't mind if the bean plants don't make pods. 

In the greenhouse the Minnesota Midget cantaloupes are blossoming.  Just male flowers so far.  The cukes are going to blossom very soon too.

This future freakish black krim tomato is getting bigger every day.  Tomatoes take so much water!

Here is Faith Jr.  You can hardly tell the tomato is affected by BER.  

The strawberries are ripening.  This is the first one of many.  Lots of green fruit to be had in the strawberry patch.  Lots and lots of runners too.