My Garden is growing :)

So I had a little drama with our garden. We had something eating our veggies. This did not make me happy. So I looked on line to find something that could kill various pests without being completely toxic. sigh. You know what they say about the best laid plans. A few of the websites I found said that you could use Ivory soap with water, spray it on the plants and it will kill the bugs, but not the plant. Well, sweet!! not. I thought I had some pictures of the devastation, but I can only find this one. The soap killed my cucumbers. ALL OF THEM!!! so sad. I was so looking forward to crisp, cool cucumbers. o well, maybe next year. It burned some of the leaves on the tomatoes, but they survived. Same with the zucchini, we actually managed to get a few zucchini out of the garden. Ate them right away. Luckily we haven't been buried in them, otherwise I'm sure there would be a different story. As for the beans, well nothing happened to them and they thrived. See, I planted 5 rows and they were out of control. Not that I'm complaining, cause we got about 3 gallons that we put in the freezer. And that's not counting the ones we ate for dinner and didn't freeze. yum! My tomatoes are loving the sunshine. I just wish they would hurry up and turn red!! We've got lots out on the vine. I can't wait to eat them. I'm hoping to get Sean to make the Roma's into some tasty sauce. The last time he made sauce it was sooo good.

And here is my pet spider :) Actually not my pet, I'm just letting she/him (shim) hang out in the cauliflower to eat the bugs. Shim is getting lots to eat. I was worried shim was gone because I went out and the web was completely gone, destroyed by the storm that rolled through. but nope, shim was just hiding, and rebuilt the awesome web and started catching more bugs.

And these would be some of the amazing bean crop. So good, the first time we picked them Sean and I were eating them right off the bushes :)