how does your garden grow?  We started our garden the spring of 2010.  I believe I blogged about it then.  We had much success the first year.  The next year we had a new baby, and didn't spend as much time with it, but we still did well.  Except for a couple of boxes with less than superior dirt, which caused us to have bad luck with tomatoes and peppers.  We did grow some mighty large sweet potatoes.  Our two largest weighed 6.5 and 9.5lbs....seriously!  We added some fruit trees last year too.  We also grew throughout the winter...cabbage, broccoli, and lettuce.  This year Jeff has taken a more active interest in the garden, and we have more time to put in it.  The warmer weather allowed us to plant earlier, and although we had frost it didn't hurt our garden too much....one cucumber and two cantaloupe plants got it.  We finally got to harvest asparagus this year....yummy!  Last Saturday we went on an urban farm tour.  We visited 13 gardens, all of which were family gardens, like us.  Many had raised beds, some had chickens (we're jealous), some had beehives (we're thinking about it).  It was nice to see others growing, and to pick up a couple of tips along the way.  We are hoping to participate in the tour next year.  It seems like we are always busy planning what is coming to our backyard next.  We just added a grape vine today.  We will do another fall/winter garden, and next year are planning to add a couple of apple trees, and a kiwi trellis.  Great satisfaction comes from raising your own food.  There is nothing like fresh picked, homegrown, ORGANIC produce.
These pictures were taken the first of May, so things have filled out even more since then.  We are already picking squash.