I'm sure your neighbors were happy to see veggies, even bolting crops, over the weedy yard, Spaghetina. Here's a couple of suggestions I have from my time growing organically up in SF and Marin. 1) Most of those flowers of the bolted veggies are edible and tasty. While the leaf flavor has turned bitter through the winter and the taste change that comes with bolting, the blossoms often gain a very interesting taste that is great topping salads or lightly fried in certain dishes. 2) If like germinating your own crops from seed, remember which of your crops are heirloom (their seeds will usually produce true) and which are F1 or other hybrids -- it's seed is typically still viable, but may have very different characteristics than the parent. The GW seed exchange forum is a great way to get those exotic seeds you mentioned w/o having to pay catalog prices or drive all over the Bay area, but you need your own seeds to reciprocate. Some of the best plants & veggies in my yard are from trades I've made with other GW members. 3) To my way of thinking, your soil mix seems too heavily focused on decomposed organic matter and doesn't take advantage of the alkaline SF clay topsoil and it's associated soil flora. The compost/purchased soil is great for nitrogen and drainage and you can artificially pump up the P/K/Fe to grow good veggies & plants in it, but organic amendments like blood & bone meal, fish emulsion, seaweed and others need bacteria & fungi to free the nutrients for your crop's roots. That's generally not true for soluble inorganic amendments, which is why they are popular. There's definitely a risk of adding weed seeds by using your yard's topsoil in the garden beds, but that soil food web is necessary for growing good organic crops, IMO. For plants that need lots of N and like great drainage, I go 2/3 purchased soil/fully composted organic matter and 1/3 native topsoil. For tomatoes, peppers and others that suffer in N-rich soils, I use 2/3 native, 1/3 organic matter.

Michael: Where are you located? Well the ventilation system is all natural. I open up the north and south doors and the sides pull up the four feet. We live on a hill and we always have a breeze. I haven't run into many disease problems. I thought I had some early blight started, but I sprayed with copper and everything stopped. It was either the blight or a magnesium deficiency. I sprayed with epson salt too. I am going to put up a third tunnel like the ones in the pictures sometime early in the spring. I am also working on plans for two smaller movable ones. I would load them with broccoli and cauliflower then move them and load them up with squash and pickling cucumbers. That fall I would replant the outside with carrots and move the tunnel back then we could overwinter them. Then in the spring planted green building, I would replant spinach, chard, kale?, lettuce and other cold tolerant crops. I love working in the tunnels in the late fall or early spring. I had to put a coat hook up this year. Ok, it was just a screw, but I did hold my coat. I got too hot working. Big plans for the tunnels, I hope the pan out! Here is a picture of the sides pulled up.

David, thank you so much for posting your beautiful pics! Awe inspiring project you have accomplished. Everything looks lovely. You will motivate me not to give up on tackling the weedy mess I have in my yard where it juts up against the neighbors. I have tried to make it into a shade garden, but sometimes it seems like more than I can do, I have 350 yards on each side that is full of garlic mustard. While getting it out again this year, I will keep your garden in my head, and picture a woodsy wonderland. Drema

They are absolutely beautiful S&S. There is just nothing like the feeling of planting a seed in the dirt, watching it flourish, and then feeding your family with it's fruit. It's empowering lol. Great job buddy keep up the good work, and don't forget to keep me up to date on your progress. I will talk to you soon my friend. Patmark