This was our garden last year:

Last year I marked the space for the new garden.  Then I sprayed Round Up on the grass where we wanted the garden.  You can see in the photo that the grass is dying.  This spring, the grass was completely dead.  We applied some rotted manure to the soil and then I tilled.  Sylvia planted lots of good things to eat and some flowers for our eyes to feast upon.  Then we put up fence.  I setup the water hose with some accessories including quick disconnects.

Then we watered and waited . . . repeated that process several times. And today the garden looks like this:

The butternut squash went a little bit crazy, but who cares.  It tastes just as good if it grew outside the fence as it would have done growing inside.  And that means it tastes great!

The cucumbers are done and the zucchini is nearly so.  Eggplants and peppers are still loaded as are the tomato vines.  Plenty of carrots, onions and beets are ready.  The second planting of green beans have recently come to maturity.  They taste great when freshly picked and steamed.

We’ve had so much produce this year that Sylvia has twice had to purchase more glass jars to preserve the goodies.  We will probably remember 2012 as the year of the garden.