Check it out!

Look at that garden grow! Mark has been tending it more than me. He has really taken to gardening this year. I'm glad. I hate weeding. It just grows and grows! There are little green tomatoes, cucumbers the size of my pinkie finger, and zucchinis that are tiny.

The zucchini plant has taken over its area. It has sent out new roots in the alley ways and aggressively pushed its neighbors away.

Mark grew potatoes in a barrel. He planted potatoes in the bottom of the barrel, and every time the top of the plant grew up, he added dirt. It kept growing up. He kept adding dirt. It only took a week or two to grow right out of the top of the barrel. This is supposed to give you many more potatoes per plant.

For comparison purposes, he planted potatoes in the ground. He also piled up dirt as they grew, but they didn't grow as high as the barrels. You just can't get as much dirt piled around them. This picture doesn't show it well, but the in-ground plants are about a third as high as the barrel plants.