My garden is finally waking up and showing some life with these warm days. I will buy some of the warmer weather starts in a week or so, but have quite a few things in the ground and just waiting for the nights to get warmer so they will start growing in earnest.
Mustard greens and snap peas growing up the trellises behind. Something else is planted next to the mustard but I don't remember and it hasnt sprouted yet. Also there are some cucumbers I just seeded the other day at the far end of the bed. Later on I will add peppers, and there is some fennel sprouting there too that I will probably let grow to bulbs.
Strawberry and perennial herb bed. I've got chives, oregano, thyme, sage, maybe tarragon in here with about 20 strawbs. Two years ago I built a cage to protect the strawberries from squirrels and birds and I've actually started getting an ok harvest. Nothing crazy, but enough for 5-10 strawberries a day during peak season (the kids usually eat them before I get a chance to taste them). The cage wasn't super sturdily built (it has a hinging lid so I can harvest) and a hail storm took out the top mesh so its on the agenda to rebuild it.
This is the main section of my garden. We have this walled off from our resident rabbits with a mesh fence that I have to climb over to access which is annoying but at least all my efforts don't go to waste. The bed in the foreground is all cool weather crops, lettuces on the far end, a few rows of kale and something I forget that I just planted, then beets and radishes and spinach. The trellis is where I grow runner beans (both sides) and the opposite bed currently has kale, chard, cabbage, carrots and a few opportunistic sunflowers. Also there are some mystery sprouts that I'm hoping are the progeny of the marigolds I had planted there last year. There will also be bush beans later in the season.
My main tomato bed, mostly empty now. I'm experimenting with planting lettuces in it early season because the tomatos stay small for a while until the lettuces won't grow anymore and can be pulled. I planted the mescluns at the front but had a group of bibb and red leaf lettuce spring up that had never sprouted last year. Got my first garden salad off this little group just today. Next year I might have the whole thing ringed with lettuce or radishes and leave spots for the tomato starts so that I will have more space in other beds in early season.
My neighbor has a lovely garden. He also planted mint. In the ground. Along our shared fence. So now I have mint too! I attempted to create a 'bed' not that it will contain the mint, but at least now I have a border to keep in mind when I pull up the aggressive runners. This whole section fills up by early summer and I can make all the mojitos I want.
I also have (a few) flowers. I need more to provide visual interest, but I'm terrible at deciding what will look good and the previous owners put in massive rock beds which are difficult to make planting areas in. This is a small area near our patio with tulips, salvia and phlox.
I installed a border around our shed two summers ago, and planted with flowering perennials. I really just threw a bunch of plants in to see what would work, and each side of the shed gets completely different light and thus different results. I have a variety of phlox, catmint, salvia, penstemon, some lily and uhm some sort of yellow hardy perennial that never seems to do too well. Around the back I put in some blackberry and raspberry bushes, which the rabbits like to strip the bark from and so haven't done super well. We did get a few handfuls of blackberries last year and I put in a few more plants in hopes that some of them would take off.
We also have a new baby apple tree that probably won't give us fruit for another 5-10 years.
I'm like one of those gardeners that gets really excited about it in the spring and spends a lot of effort planting things and then by July I get tired of the battles I am constantly fighting with bugs and wildlife and so I kind of give up and then by September I'm annoyed at home much produce I have to harvest.
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