Strawberries - 3

I could have posted another 3 - 4 pics like this of different parts of our strawberry plants. They've erupted in strawberries, at least 20 are growing right now :D Over 10 on one plant even! 

Tomatoes - 3

We are up to 8 of our roma type tomatoes growing! 

A bunch of 3 :D 

And our newest one that just recently started growing! 

Anaheim's 2

Our first Anaheim has started growing! 

And many others are in bloom! 

Habaneros

When we were picking up the jalapenos, my husband decided he simply had to grow his own habanero pepper. I have no idea what we'll do with them once they grow but we'll do something :p 

Like the other peppers we got at the same time as this one, it's doing well and should be ready to go outside in 2-3 weeks! 

Jalapenos - 3

You will probably notice a very large different between the plants from last time and this time. The ones I posted last time are still hanging on but because the rest of them got eaten, we picked up a 6-pack from a local greenhouse. They were started sooner then ours :p

So, despite this being the third set of pictures... this is the first of this plant. I look forward to seeing it grow and will do better next year with starting my own from seed! :D

Anaheim Chili

Roughly a week ago... my dog at my jalapeno plants. (I was furious.) We decided starting over wasn't going to be feasible with the short season Colorado has and decided to pick up some Jalapeno plants from the local greenhouse.

Clearly, we walked out with more than just jalapenos because here are some anaheims! 

We've had these peppers for 3-4 days, already got them trasnplanted (wanted to avoid the over watering issue the small containers contributed to in our tomato plants) and so far, they are doing really well. All the peppers came in packs of six... so...... 

We're going to have a LOT of peppers lol 

Artichokes

This season, I decided to embark on a grand adventure. We're going to be growing artichokes! They take forever to grow (150-180 days) and will need a very large container... but we love artichokes since they run $3-4 each at the store... $2 on a bag of seeds and seeing what happened couldn't be much more (you know, if you don't count the cost of the containers and soil required LOL).

Like my little frog? :p 

I germinated them using the baggie method, which proved to be really interesting. Unlike last year, where I only germinated cantaloups, cucumbers, lettuce, etc using this method... artichokes take a long time to germinate. It took them at least 14 days before I saw the seeds do anything and from there, they were very slow growing. I actually had to carefully make up a new paper towel with water and a new bag because the other one grew mold. Yuck. :/ Next year I think I may just get a seed heating pad :p

But, we have three sprouts that survived transplant and are growing well so I'm hopeful and excited!!

We started these things at least a month ago and this is all we've got to show for it so far. Come September, we should have some really taste artichokes though!