First fall harvest

 The first harvest is always pretty exciting for me. Especially when you wait for so long and finally can pick something ready to eat. Well that day came today!! Cucumbers are loading down my vines!! I love these Asian cucumbers much better than any that I have grown before.

Here they are in all their glory:

Here is a lady bug doing her job on the cucumber leaf constantly looking for aphids to devour.

Here we have a few Pac Man broccoli plants and some cabbage. They still need to be thinned out. I plant a few together in each seed starter container because if I don't then I always lose a couple after transplanting them. This way I just thin them out when they get large enough to be certain they won't die.

 I also decided to try some red kale this year. I have never grown it before but after eating some a while ago I figured I would try growing it myself. It was quite good.
 

Finally a pumpkin that didn't get destroyed from the pickle worms. The Monterey Garden Insect Spray worked wonders on them. Since it is organic and similar to Bt I have no doubts about using it.

My squash are beginning to produce now, too. I'm not sure what variety this is because they all were given to me. This is some type of straight neck and I also have a few yellow squash plants.

And lastly a shot of the Derby bush beans which are really flowering well.