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The later part of May had us feeling behind on our gardening.  At the end of the month we noticed that the neighbors down the street who "know what they are doing" had planted, so we didn't feel so bad that our first round of indoor seeds needed to start again.  We used that time to build these 4 boxes on the side of the house.

Our four planters are 2'x6' each and run the length of the south side of the house which gets a ton of sun.  I am also looking forward to piling all our snow on top of them later this winter (well I will enjoy it the first 5 times and no more thereafter.)  We used about 1.5 yards of topsoil from Purple Cow Organics in order to fill the boxes and once the weather finally got warm (and we saw that the folks down the block had planted) we placed our seeds in using the square foot gardening method as our guide. Some things have grown, others have not.  

The white object at the upper right end of the garden is Marcel.  I think he is chasing a chipmunk into our storm drain.

This is the garden now about two months later! Holy cow.  We have enjoyed beans, radishes, lettuce, cucumbers and squash and there is more of all that coming.  The weather has provided lots of rain, and we just add when we need a little extra push.  I am looking forward to learning from what didn't take well this year and adding in some other items next year.  We have strawberries in another location and that may get a complete overhaul next season because they are thieved by birds, bunnies and chipmunks now.  The strawberry plants are spreading themselves out, so if we can enclose them I think we just might get a bumper crop.  

Here is a future heirloom tomato.  Thanks to Miriam for the awesome seeds for our wedding shower last year.  This little wrinkly guy makes me real happy.