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I keep taking pictures of the progress this year so I might as well put them here. This is the main garden bed. there's also various other bits of land i've dug up around the house. Nothing really important int those other beds, just grapevines and strawberries. Maybe a bed for lettuce but we'll see about that.



This was some time last week. I've got most of the ivy torn down & have spread out last years compost in the bottom corner (that darker triangle shape of dirt). You can see some onions that survived the winter.



This is yesterday. My dad came home with peat moss so i spent a few hours turning over the ground with a pitchfork. I got rid of all the moss and dug up the onions and moved them to a temporary home. Pretty much the ground is ready for planting at this point.

Okay, here's the next step in my garden. (around 4/12) I knocked out the individual planks from some old fencing and cut them with a saw to size to make a border around my beds. MUCH better than trying to outline things in rock and bricks like I did last year. [: There's also some spinach planted next to the garage (the white building)



Today (4/19) I planted onions, swiss chard, broccoli, cauliflower, beets, and turnips. I also erected a croocked trellis for my peas. My dad came home with netting and these metal posts you hammer into a ground. (i was planning on constructing a form out of wood..) I just think he doesn't approve all that much of my whacking at stuff around the house with a hammer. xd

Here's my onion bed. There's red onions in the back row and green in the front. The fat ones are onions from last year. And the thin curly ones are some wild onions I transplanted.



Here's the garden proper. Still lacking the rest of the fencing.. You can see some of the seedlings, trust me there's 5 more beds there that have tiny seedlings in them.



Just to show more, here's another section. There's strawberries on the bottom, lillies of the valley in the middle, and gladiolas in the bare patch in the back. Ignore the ghetto-riffic dishwasher lying on the ground. You can also barely see the tops of some terra cotta pots behind the big plastic bin.



Turn around 180 degrees and this is the right side of our driveway. It's hard to tell but at the bottom there's a new grape vine and working your way to the back there's a rosemary bush, three sage plants and older established grapevines.

I'm glad! I hope it dries out for you soon.

or a garden gnome [:

Not much has changed in the past few weeks except that everything's getting greener. The spinach and lettuce's are growing well. I'm afraid it's going to warm up too quickly this year and the cabbage, kale, broccoli, and cauliflower won't grow.

Tomorrow or Thurs. my beans and summer squashes are going into the ground.

Here's a random picture of my flowering strawberries!

Good advice! I was actually thinking about mulch this morning while I watered them.

Yes share! Anything you grow is your garden. [:

Everything is planted now. Yesterday I put the remaining bunch of seedlings in the ground. They were as follows : eggplants (mixed variety), tomatoes (3 kinds), buttercup squash, baby watermelon, jalapeno, bell pepper, lemon cucumber, regular cucumber. I also planted some radish seeds in the spot where the majority of my broccoli and cauliflower used to be.

Today I finally put up the rest of the white fence. They are cheap interlocking plastic things my dad bought. The fence looks crooked because they won't actually interlock when put in the ground and tend to buckle. But it's a border of some sort.

I also yanked up a bunch of weeds and violets along the left side of the garden, making a border with red bricks to hinder any growth into the garden proper. This way, I now have about a half a foot walking space along that side.

No pictures because I'm being lazy.

EDIT:

not so lazy anymore.



I might start taking pictures from the back of the garden as things grow. Because with the peas and the cucumber climbing up they will block a lot of the view. So here's my looking out from the back of the garden.