"Hoboaties"on the way

As I was downloading pictures for this post on "what is growing in my vegetable garden", my honey came into the room, so I told him I was having trouble coming up with a catchy title for the post. He proceeded to tell me a little story from his childhood. You are going to have to read to the end to find out about "Hoboaties'

The first of the Cherry tomatoes in it's water filled plant protector cage, and take a look at those pretty yellow flowers. I have never had tomatoes flowering this early before, thanks to the warmth provided by the protectors.

Sugar snap peas are starting to climb up the twine on the vertical frames.

Here is what I wrote in a post on August 10th 2008 The garden center just received their first shipment of vegetable starts for fall/winter harvesting. As MrC and I are going to be out of town from Wednesday to Sunday, I decided I had better get the first of these vegetables into the ground, then when we return I can buy some more to plant for a second harvest.
Not ever having grown leeks before, I did not know what to expect.
Well I did not get to harvest the Leeks as I thought I would, so I left them in the ground to do their thing, and here is what they look like today. Looks as though I will get to harvest leeks this season.

Last year my attempt at growing cucumbers was a dismal failure. I am happy to report that all the seeds I have planted have come up and are looking very healthy. Keep your fingers crossed for my success this year.

Last years corn was a dismal failure too. I planted it too late, and the season was way too short anyway and I also did not feed it near enough. This year I am on top of the corn planting, in fact a little too exuberant.*grin* I got the corn into the ground on time, and waited, and waited for it to pop out of the ground, I finally assumed the birds had eaten it all, so replanted the corn patch. Now I have plenty of corn. The first corn planted, decided now the weather has warmed up, to sprout and so did the second batch. I will let it grow a little taller then cull out the weakest plants. Keewee needs to have a little more patience. *chuckle*

My honey does not like cabbage so I had been hesitant in growing too many until I came across this variety. These are a mini cabbage mix. A collection of red, green, round and pointed varieties which mature at different times, for an ongoing supply of crisp sweet softball sized heads. Just perfect for one person.

Brussels sprouts are also new to my garden. I chose to grow the variety Rubine a lovely purple/red color sprout. I think the leaves of the plants are an attractive addition to the garden.

I sure am excited over the two blueberry bushes I planted. They are both producing quite a few flowers, so I may have a few berries this season. If I only manage to pick a hand full or two of berries this first year for our morning cereal, then that will be great.

I have both green and yellow bell peppers growing.

There are two varieties of pole beans here, Blue lake and Scarlet runner. The beans on the other end of the row are not coming up as fast. There are just two beans about 1 inch up out of the ground, and I was thinking perhaps the birds got to them so I should plant more. "No Keewee, remember, patience is a virtue" *chuckle*

Hoboaties
Yes these are Hoboaties, well at least that is what they were called by my honey, when he was a little guy, and did not yet know how to say strawberries.We are looking forward to the days of strawberry covered ice cream, strawberry pie and ice cream, strawberry jam, strawberries on cereal, and whatever other strawberry recipes I can come up with.

There are many more veggies in the garden, but this is enough to show you for now.