When are the carrots going to be here mom?

I have planted about 70% of the garden so far this year. I learned several lessons last year including not to purchase too many vegetables (18 green pepper plants huh?) and when you plant your corn early, you need to plant more than a couple of stalks, as it needs a bunch to cross pollinate. Who knew? Well my thumb turned a shade greener and this year, I did not overplant and I stayed away from corn. I did scale down to 3 green pepper, 2 tomato, zucchini, summer squash, butternut squash, and a cucumber plant. Though in the craziness at the garden store, I got something called a lemon cucumber which is yellow and shaped like a, well a lemon. Anyone, anyone? *gawd*

Early in the season, I planted spinach, lettuce, and carrots as they are no fail. Straight into the ground, add water, and voila salad every night for a week. Gibson loves carrots. He will sit, lay down, roll over, say he'll do chores for a week, whatever it takes to get carrots. Last summer we had a routine going where I would come home from work, go out to the garden, and Gibson would follow me and sit at the end of the row of carrots and wait patiently. I would thin out the carrots by pulling out every 5th one, which at 1/2" was underdeveloped yet mighty tasty. Then I brushed the dirt off of them and fed them to him. He loved it. It was our thing. This year, I planted the carrots for him.

Now if only I can keep Tica from jumping the fence and laying down in them.