Wow! That looks great! What a lot of work. It puts my 3 puny raised beds to shame.

Looks great! Planting is the fun part, followed by harvest and a good meal.

Are those berries off to the right side, Rose?

My gardening is going really slow this year. Hope our good weather holds out because it takes me 3-5 times longer to accomplish things outdoors than it did when I was young.

Good for you. Wish I had room for a veggie garden.

It all sounds so good. It just seems like a rite of passage to be able to put out a garden each year, doesn't it?

Looks great, Rose. I'm finding even if it isn't really a nice day, I feel better if I can get outside even to do just some small projects. I'm trying to make that a goal.

My deer would completely love your garden. Such pests here in town, even with spraying repellent I'm finding it easier just to let go of some things than to fight them for those....(like roses).

Looking good!

Envying the northerners and their summer gardens. About the only thing I can grow here in the summer is okra and some herbs and my walking onions. My tomatoes are finishing up and so are my snap peas. My broccoli never really headed, but got big and leafy and bitter - not sure why. The plants were from a broccoli seed mix, so I don't know the variety. All in the compost bin now.

My blackberries are coming in right now, so that's nice. And I may get a few more late tomatoes, if I'm lucky. I have papayas too.

It does look great. As morz mentioned it is easier to let things go although I did purchase two tomato plants yesterday. The deer completely ignored all of the things people use. I decided that feeding them the 14 tomato plants last year was enough. It was cheaper to just buy them when I wanted. Only two that they did not eat completely were in grass, one in an over grown pot that I had tossed very old tomato seeds in with not expectations and another seedling one that I had not noticed until it was blooming.

The deer here ignore rose plants but there was large doe that would pick flowers at a certain stage and eat them like candy. I think she may have gone to deer heaven because she was the largest deer that wandered into my yard and I have not seen her hoof prints recently. Another indication she is gone is there has been no sampling of my peony flowers.

Yes, those are red raspberries on the right side. It takes me longer than than when I was young. This garden is probably 1/4 or less than the size it used to be. A few weeks ago my brother commented that my garden gets smaller every year.

Looks good! I am slowly doing mine, was going to work on it today but it rained.

I didn't know that you could start peppers this late in the year. I usually start mine in February or March indoors, but this year I got a late start because the first batch burned up in the April heat, and I had to start new seeds. I did get new seeds started, however, but I've never started them in April before. I hope I have time for them to make chilies before Christmas. I'll plant them outside in my back yard in Los Angeles when the seedlings are strong enough. They usually grow pretty fast once I do that, if they survive transplanting. Last year I did not get any started.

I have terrible soil in L.A., and so I have to plant my chilies in pots, but this year I am going to try putting them in wine barrel planters so that they will not get rootbound so quickly.

The main vegetable I grow is chocolate Habanero chilies because I cannot buy them in stores and only find a handful (if that many) at farmers' markets.

My garden is getting smaller each year also, and I used to grow tomatoes, but they got to be just too much work, and so I buy tomatoes at farmers' markets. I like the convenience of growing them at home, but lately I've been spending half my time in the Palm Springs area, and that makes it difficult. I can't grow anything here in the desert, but it is good for sprouting chili seeds, as long as they are protected from the sun and extreme heat.

I live in NW Pennsylvania. I started my pepper plants in March. I just haven't put them out in the garden, probably will later this week

I just finished digging out all of last years wildflowers and plants from last year. One perennial took over my wildflower garden, so I dug that right up. My flower bed isn't big but it took us a few days because it's been hot here (by Canadian standards.... lol). This morning was still nice and cool (16C) so we finished turning the dirt and I planted a row of sunflower seeds that I got from Cheerios to Save The Bee's, and I sprinkled a whack of poppies and wildflowers for the rest. I won't see actual flowers until July. Our growing season here is really short. I do have some tulips about to bloom though. We also rototilled parts of the front lawn. There was a plant in my flower bed that was pretty for the first few years we owned the house. But all of the sudden it took off all over and we've been fighting this thing for over 10 years now. It started growing in the grass too, killing my lawn. So this morning we rototilled two parts, about 20sq ft in total and re-seeded it Hopefully it takes. I'm sure the plant will grow back. 10 years ago we dug 2' deep if not more and took all that dirt to the dump and replaced it all with new dirt, even putting a layer of landscaping fabric down first and low and behold, it all came back! The wildflowers seem to keep it at bay in the flower bed, but I can't get rid of it in the grass. :( I did use roundup two years ago, so I decided this year to finally turn the dirt over and try reseeding. Wish me luck!