Garden update (or, "Sunflowers: Take 3")

Back in May, I wrote about my newly planted garden. A month-and-a-half of photosynthesis has gone by, and I'm now ready for a horticultural update!

First of all, most of the plants are looking pretty good. The peas have gone all adolescent-growth-spurt and are dominating the garden plot, as evident in these pictures:

Before:



After:





The carrots, bell peppers, and tomatoes we put in around the peas and cabbage are all healthy-looking. I also put in some yellow wax beans since I last wrote about the garden, but only three out of a dozen or so have come up. Same deal with the six pickling cucumbers I planted: only one of those survived...

Here you can see some healthy red cabbage and rhubarb, and one poor, lonely cucumber. Sad.


I also planted some mini Indian corn (forgot to take a photo) and sunflowers. Unfortunately, squirrels apparently eat more sunflowers than John Peterson. So I constructed little quonset huts of chicken-wire to discourage them from trying again. No luck. So I tried another approach.
This one is sure to succeed:



Here's one of the adorable, persecuted seedlings I'm trying to save:



And in my smugness, I left a note for the scavenging flea-bags:







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