Gardening update

I am, perhaps, the world's most novice gardener so I thought I would share for others who are as new to this as I am, what plants look like after just a few weeks.
                                 FRUIT





My lemon tree had a bunch of beautiful white flowers on it about a month ago, this month this is what is growing where all the petals of the flowers fell off.  Looks like a growing lemon to me.  I am interested to see how long it takes them to go from flowers to bright yellow fruit.  I'm sure I could look it up on the internet, but what is the fun in that?









Here is my strawberry crop for the day yesterday.  Still super tiny, but I still haven't researched whether my strawberries are just a small variety or not.  They are kind of sour little things so I might not be leaving them on the vine long enough.

Next is my grape vine.  Can you see where the bunch is growing?  We got none of these last year, which is the year that we planted, and there are none growing on my other vine, the one we planted this year.  What I conclude from this.....is that they don't grow fruit the first year.  And yes, again, I know that I could probably find all this info on the internet but it is quite fun to figure out and see for myself.






To the right is what is going on with my raspberry "bush".  We only planted this one about a month ago and so I was surprised to walk out and find white flowers on it, but maybe, just maybe we will see some fruit this year after all.  We have had a lot more rain than usual, but we will have to see what happens with the flowers.








My pumpkins and watermelon plants finally started coming up.  I was afraid that only one of them would come up because it took several weeks for the rest to start poking up, but every seed that we planted has come up (plus several weeds that I didn't pull before the picture for some reason).

                                           On to my pots....








As you can see my summer squash are flourishing.  I have continued to put them in full sunlight and they have done fine so far.  I will see how they do over the next month as it gets hotter.











As you can see my broccoli are looking weaker than before.  I'm thinking that I will pull a few and see if the remaining ones do better.  We shall see.






Here is my sad pot of cilantro and green onion.  I do have sprouts of both, but neither look like they will survive the heat.  Although, perhaps the problem is too much water and they need more heat.  I'm hoping they spruce up and grow better as it warms up.  And on a side note, when we moved into our house there was a huge grove (is that what you call it?) of bamboo that we transplanted, and as we were transplanting we found what looked like a giant green onion mixed in with the bamboo.  I thought I had pulled all of it out, but that white puff ball looking thing behind the pot, that is at the top of the green onion that I thought I had rid myself of.  Looks like we've found something that I can't kill even when I am trying.

                        
     VEGGIES

And finally my row of peas.  I really hope that we get some peas because they are the only veggies that are really growing.  Even though they are not my favorite tasting vegetables, I have a couple of fond memories of shelling peas when we were living at my grandma's house for the summer when I was a kid.  I really want to be able to shell some peas grown out of my own garden with my kids.  Pass on the tradition.  :)



There are a few things that we planted that haven't shown up at all and I'm beginning to think that they won't come up at all.  We have a row of green beans and one of yellow onions where not one plant has come up.  These seeds were from a year or two ago and I knew they might not be good anymore because they were under a sink and got wet somehow, but I was hoping against hope that they were somehow still viable.  But I think we can all say now that once seeds get wet they will no longer grow when planted.

And here ends my little gardening journal.  Hopefully in a few weeks I can show a lot more produce on my now small plants!