Garden wonders

Every year I plant a garden, a little larger year to year, and each year it grows and grows -no surprise, right?   We harvest, eat, enjoy and can all that time allows for the cold season to come, and yet I am still amazed each day at what is growing out there;   So just photos today, with minimal comment, as I gaze in wonder at what just a few months ago were seeds & soil;  Now with water and sun they are so much more, more beautiful and so tasty (or will be soon)!

Grapes on our 30+ yr old vines,  they were terribly neglected for many years before we bought the property,  
they will be our first crop since moving to our homestead

 beans - snap peas in the bed behind them

Our first try at growing potatoes, looking good so far :-) - corn and pumpkins growing behind them

Raspberries, so many we can't pick or eat them all, still so much jam left from last year - we're freezing what we can't eat - 
blackberries are loaded so blackberry jam this season

Onion flowers - lovely

Peppers - 6 different sweet, 5 hot

Tomatoes - 21 tomato plants, 8 different kinds, to be exact

Cucumbers, (zuchinni, squash & melons all growing in the beds next to them)

Dill flowers - 

Nearly ready to be dried for pickling all those cukes & green tomatoes come September

Astilbe

Wild black-eyed Susans

More wildflowers

Bee balm

and the hard work, but sweet view of winter warmth to come

Even with all that is lovely around here it sometimes seems my days in the garden are just filled with pulling weeds ;  

I try hard to remind myself each week how beautiful the world around me is, 

It's not hard to do, 

 It's the bright spot amidst the dishes, laundry and chaos of the "neglected by summer" interior of our little farm house

Now, back to the garden I must go!