Found these guys today

...and tons of aphids on my pepper plant. Well, not as many as could be- I think I killed them all, but by far the largest amount yet I have seen in my garden. i found the spider in my sugar snap peas and the caterpillar on my pepper plant. I am trying to get them identified by bugguide.net.




Also, the bottom of my sugar snap peas are beginning to turn yellow. I know they are a cool season crop, but I definitely did not get the amount of peas out of them that I was told I would. I got about a few handfuls, when you are supposed to get a bucketful per plant. I hope they are not dying. =(

Latest- taken last week

This is the latest from the garden, taken a week ago. Things have even gotten bigger since then!

Sugar Snap Peas:




Fuschia:




Cilantro:

Strawberries:

Peach Tree and Raspberry:

Raspberry Fruit:

Some of my little tiny purple flowers (use them to attract pollinators and for ground cover):



Lavender:

Tomatoes:

Wildflowers (our butterfly garden). Wow, it's grown A LOT!:

Practicing Patience

I was starting to get worried- sugar snap peas are a cool weather crop, and mine have been growing for quite sometime. I kept hearing about how easy they are to grow, how profuse the crop is, etc. But not even a single bloom! But I read a similar problem, and read that the person would soon have more than enough- just to practice patience. Sure enough, within that week, the person had a ton of blooms.

So hopefully it goes with me. I just saw the first bloom today, so I'm hopeful that a ton more are on the way. As soon as they start blooming you have to be on your toes for the peas; supposedly you can hardly keep up with them.

Here's the first bloom.




Cute, aren't they?

Oh, and the raspberries just bloomed for the first time this week as well. Their flowers look a bit like spaced-out daisies. =)