garden envy

I'm experiencing garden envy these days.  Most of the garden plots are beautiful and full of green plants, but there are a couple surrounding our plot that look like they've been using performance enhancing drugs.  Some plots have tomato plants almost as tall as me, and one plot has a jalapeno plant that looks more like a small tree.  I can hardly believe it.  

Anyway, I know our garden isn't looking too bad.  The plants are green, and nothing has died (yet).  Even one of pepper plants, who had all its leaves except one break off, is on the mend and thriving.  I believe that my parents were quite impressed with my green thumb.  While they were visiting, we planted cucumber plants.  I'm pretty sure I will regret this decision when we are swamped with cucumbers in need of pickling come September (while I'm in the midst of the job search and nearing the start of the school year), but planting them seemed like a good idea at the time.       

 Below we have our first bell pepper.  It is difficult to see, but this is a Sweet Purple Beauty.

 Our tomato plants have lots of little green tomatoes.  I can't wait until they turn red.

We did some rearranging, which basically means that we got rid of the containers we had in the middle of the garden.  We couldn't get anything to grow in them, so we thought it best to recycle them and let someone else try their hand.  In their place, we planted cucumbers.