Easter squashlings

Happy Easter for the folks it's Easter for, and I hope you were able to enjoy the giddy weather!  We've had a few rough storms come through this spring and the plants seemed to have made it through just fine.  I wanted to do some update shots on the different parts of the garden.

 Here are the early shots of the garden with little in it. This, I think is either late February or early March.

Early spring after the bed was put in.  Radishes and peas are planted but not yet sprouted

Tiny garlic sprouting in the corner of the raised bed

Here's what's growing in the corners of the raised bed now:

Garlic!

Onion, Garlic, and a volunteer of purple lettuce. 

Notice how full and lush looking the center of the raised bed is?  We added some soil amendments from our compost pile we've made since moving in.  We've now got some unexpected residents---squash!

Squashlings

At first we saw a few come up, then a few more, and then about 20!  Then we had a hailstorm and a bit of a cold snap and they all died.  I turned over the soil and now....

We've easily got over 20 squashlings again.  I call them squashlings, not because it's necessarily correct, but because we have no idea what they are.  We've eaten cucumber, watermelon, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, butternut squash, pumpkin, maybe even some zucchini?  They all look the same when they first sprout.

Squashlings

 And there are coming up as if they were meant to own this spot.  My husband has grand plans for peppers in this raised bed, so there will either be some selective thinning, or he'll get really good at training these melon squashy things.  They're even coming up from the compost after we turned that over.

Squashlings coming up from the compost

I wonder if they're is more than one type.  Does anyone know how to tell these little guys apart before  they start fruiting?  Well, before the fruit starts changing color?