I don't have any pictures to share, but I looked at your pics and my plants are about the same size. We ran into problems with abnormally low spring temperatures, an abundance of rain, and a broken tractor at the beginning of the season.

All veggies (expect peppers and okra) and greens were started via the wintersow method, including tomatoes as always :)
Pictures as of June 8th

Melon 'Minnesota Midget'
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3rd year Habanero Pepper in the ground this year...
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Romaine Lettuce....I pulled some out for dinner to make room for an extra tomato 'Black Cherry' :)
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Okra 'Clemson Spineless' planted June 7th
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The new veggie area. I was still working on it when I took this pic a few weeks ago. The Romaine in the pic above is planted here. Also planted Kohlrabi 'Early Purple Vienna', Mustard 'Broadleaf Florida' (now bolting), Brussels Sprouts (June 7th), Collards, a variety of hot peppers including 'Black Pearl' and 2 determinate Tomatoes
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Rhubarb seedlings
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Peas 'Oregon Sugar Pod II'
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Acorn Squash on June 2nd

Brussels Sprouts June 8th...about 6 weeks old.

Vera,
Your garden pictures look great, nice garden. You start your peppers directly in the ground? How does that work for you? Do you get alot of peppers?

Mark

Steve's Garden

Peace - Steve

These are from June 3, so obviously things are just a little farther along now... My early and cherry tomatoes have set fruit, the peppers are starting to bloom, and the peas and broccoli are almost done. Beans are vining, squash is producing, and cauliflower is starting to head. The cukes are also flowering a lot, but haven't started growing fruits yet.

Bulb fennel:

Rosa Bianca eggplants with some lettuce:

Sweet Corn:
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Summer Squash (just sauteed the first little ones tonight):
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Sugar snap peas, lettuce, tomato plants and broccoli (peas and broccoli will be out in a week or so to make room for the tomatoes:
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Cheddar cauliflowr, purple pole beans, peppers and kale:
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Swiss chard, red cabbage, English peas, celery, artichokes:
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Pumpkin:

Here's my progression so far:

Seed babies started in March/April:

cucumbers

tomatoes (grape and big boys)

Planted everything outside in early May. This is after being in the the ground for about 3 weeks:

whole garden
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potted sweet basil

tomatoes (bigs boys on the right, grapes on the left)

cucumbers

strawberries (not started from seed)

blackberries (also not started from seed)
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Pole Beans (kentucky wonder, i believe. This is the 2nd set...put the first group out to harden to early and they all died on me)

Marigolds

Current pic from this morning (was able to snap 1 shot before my batteries died!)

wow! Everyones gardens look so great!

Mark I did not start anything except acorn squash outside. I started it all inside, but, the first round got devoured by my rotten kitties. Had to start over, then some seedlings just didn't grow fast and hard inside, they are doing better now that I have them in the ground. We will see how the peppers go, if they don't start producing for me before it gets too cold I might bring them indoors and try to get them to finish. Actually I think I had some late starter peppers last year and still got some. Not as many as I would have liked, but enough.

Vera! How do you have a "3rd year pepper" plant? Do you bring it in during the winter?

Steve, you do all that on an apt deck? Thats great. When I lived in an apt the only thing I ventured into was flowers and a couple of sago palms in TX. I also lived in TN and I had a patio garden there too, just flowers.

Thanks for sharing all your pics! I like to see what others are doing!

I went out and snapped some pics tonight to show the change over the last week. The eggplant leaves have really increased in size, and the squash have topped the container next to them. The fennel is also getting much bushier.

Eggplant:

Squash:

Fennel:

Opalka tomatoes:

Cheddar cauliflower starting to peek out from the leaves:

Garden troll who dug up my leeks yesterday:

Dude...scary troll! =)

Ya I got two trolls that pretend to be sweet kitties. Makes ya want to just throw em in the garage in "time out"! Away from my sight.....hehe!

I also got a couple that look like sweet little 3 yr olds that I gotta keep and eye on! They like to pick!
Last time we were out I told my boy to make sure he steps over the flower, he must have thought I said step "on" the flower cause he squashed it like a bug....STOMP! It was too funny to be mad.

Here is a link that might be useful: my garden blog

new updated pics from this morning! Sorry for the quality as they were taken with my phone.

Marketmore Cukes...getting ready to harvest the first batch!

More cukes

All Star Strawberries sending out their first runners

Sweet Basil - already harvested multiple bunches and given them away!

Baby Grape Tomatoes

Lookin nice! =) I finally was able to move mine to a house (townhome), so they have a yard to grow in now. =)

Steve's Garden

I don't have pictures, I am going to try this week. But I have already harvested my spring peas, lettuces, radishes, some carrots,and other spring crops. I just started on the bush beans (they are great) and the first 8 ball zukes. Just starting to see tomtoes. Flowers are starting on peppers, eggplant, melons etc.

Those look great! I am gonna have to take some updated pics later today and post them on my blog. I'll be away from my garden for a few days...I hope it does alright with someone else taking care of it!!!!

My Garden Blog

Not as great as most of you all. But doing what I can. My undeep back yard id full already of berries and couple trees and blueberries and a few tomato plants and not doing so great pepper plants( prob cause they ar growing where oak tree cut down a few months ago.
So had to garden part of the front yard. Not nice looking as I want but hopefully it will improve with time and a border or nice looking fence.
Doing this all by myself. As cheaply as possible.
Just wish I could find more gardeners nearby to share stuff.
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Here is a link that might be useful:

trying again to post picture of my front yard garden taken last week

spring planted these fruit trees this Spring tree from M on sale for $9.99. note the Santa Rosa plum. It gave me 7 delicious sweet plums. Course some were split. But I wasn't about to throw out such an unexpected gift.
Planted another plum two dwarf apple trees, cherry and on other side of driveway a "OHenry peach" which has about 8 to 10 peaches. Hoping creepo Birds dont get.

Also consumed 2 lovely "Packman" broccoli . Only planted four plants. would have planted more if I new how successful and delicious. I was scared the aphids etc would destroy all.
4 eggplant plants, 4 red cabbage, over 20 pepper plants including Cubanelle yellow, green. 3 Miss Kim lilacs, moved from side of house, Azalea new one white. Azalea cut off part replanted when Big big rain barrel behind lattice installed.

first time I believe I tried brussel sprouts. They were 6 packed. Bought 2 packs. But when finally planted them weeks after buying noticed each cell had 2 plants....wow 24 plants. LOL. wood chipped Area left side is now planted with 3 kind of bush beans started last week or so. Fingers crossed hoping I get gobs of them. If critters and other PESTS leave them alone

and note the size of these small pepper plants loaded with Cubanellas I believe.
Got free wood chips from local ice storm damage piles.

Thanks for looking. Im so happy I got this far.
Happy Gardening all
Jean

Here's a picture of my garden, taken today at high noon.

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I also took a little video tour of the garden, assisted by four of my five shelties. I posted the video on YouTubel

Here is a link that might be useful: Gardening with Shelties

Those gardens look great! I am really pleased with the way ours is turning out as well. I have picked a few things, but ours is not as big as some of these! Can't wait for the tomatoes to start turning red!

Granite, that is a nice big piece of property for your garden with quite a nice view!

My Garden Blog

The summer veg is really growing now! Conditions are still a little cooler than normal and I'm waiting impatiently for the big slicing tomatoes to come on so I can have a BLT or 5. Yum. Harvesting TONS of picklilng cukes from 2 plants - trying to get them closer to cornichon size and have filled up a 2 liter pickle jar in the fridge. I have one each of horn of plenty crookneck and scallopini patty pan summer squash, and am inundated. Neem is working its magic on the squash bugs, though I did lose my butternut winter squash. Have 2 nice Howden pumpkins that will be good carving size for Jack-O-lanterns. Ate our first pole beans last night, but still waiting for those yard longs. The cauliflower and broccoli is all done, as well as the peas. My Opalka tomatoes are monsters. Eggplant is getting ready to fruit. Only thing really lagging now is Okra, but we're looking at upper 90's by end of the week, so I'm sure it will take off soon enough. As far as melons, my Minn. Midget has 3 fruit set, Jenny Lind has one. Looking forward to taking those little melons in my lunch box. Peppers are also coming on, though the plants are small and only have 1-3 peppers per plant. I added 5 more plants from the local farm supply store yesterday to fill in some bare spots. Now it's time to start seeds for fall broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and carrots.

I'm amazed at what I can fit in 20x28' with raised beds and containers:

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Todays summer squash harvest. I picked this much last Monday, and again on Thursday. Trying to get them young but some escape:

The 2 cuke plants are more than enough. They've topped their 6' trellis, and I'm also training them along the wire leaf cage that's right behind them:

These Opalkas are blowing my mind. They are 3-4 times the size of my tomatoes that are in the non-goat compost bed. And they aren't all foliage, lots of nice-sized fruit set in there:

Pepper bed:

And a couple peppers:

Future Jack-O-Lantern:

We ate this beauty last night with some breadcrumbs and romano cheese:

lantana: Looking Nice!!!

Here is a link that might be useful: Steve's Garden

Here are some pics from a few days ago. I've picked a few zucchinis and patty pan squashes, a handful of cherry tomatoes and green beans, a cucumber, jalepeno peppers and sugar snap peas. Still waiting on the large tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, winter squash and melons.

Here is a link that might be useful: July 8 garden

It took me forever to get back to Gardenweb (busy, busy), but here are some of Zone 6 pictures from late June. The corn is now almost 8 feet tall.

bird's eye view - I really need to take a new picture. It is so LUSH right now.

Bellatrix