Garden

This morning we went out to water the garden.  I go out there almost every day, at least I try to.  Some days I just water it and don't pay too much attention but usually I'll check everything out, see if things are growing, ready to pick, etc.
This past week it seems that everything is really starting to grow.  I was checking out the cucumbers and noticing how big they've gotten.  I swear like two days ago they were all like an inch long.  Today there were a couple that were probably 3-4 inches long.
Here's the size they were when we first even noticed we had any...

And then here's what some of them looked like today...

So Mikey was looking at our squash plant, we've eaten a few of those already, and he started checking out the zucchini plant.  We had yet to see anything there, just some flowers.  He pulls back some leaves and then jumps back like something tried to bite him.  He's like, "holy shit look at this!" I was scared, thought it was like a big ole snake or lizard.  And this is what I saw...

Kinda hard to tell how big it is in this particular picture, but we had NO CLUE that it was there!!  It's huge!  How did I miss that???  I'm guessing its because it's green and maybe it just blended in but what the .....

We both were just cracking up because it's probably the biggest zucchini either of us has ever seen.  I wonder if it even tastes good, not sure if you're even supposed to let them get so huge.  Oh well, we decided we're gonna make some minestrone tonight with all our fresh harvest!  So we'll see!

Emmery could barely hold both of them!

Some more random pictures of the garden.  We're pretty happy as to how it turned out, but we will do some stuff differently next year....

Basil

Oh, Emmery loves basil.  When we go out there, she just tears off leaves and eats it.

Zinnia

Jalapeno Plant (no japs yet but cannot wait!)

Green Beans (we grabbed a couple of those today, gonna throw them in the soup)

And mesclin (??) basically mixed lettuce greens, can't wait to make a salad with it!