Vegetable Garden

We haven't tried to grow too much in the yard of the house where we live now, for a couple of reasons. First, although the front yard gets a good bit of sunshine until mid-afternoon, the backyard gets basically zilch in the summertime due to the numerous trees. And second, we're just not that good at it and it's not that high up on our list of priorities. (That probably should have been reason number three. Get over it.) A couple of years ago I attempted to grow some container tomatoes but they didn't do all that well. Last year, nada. It was too much of a pain to work around the very restricted use of outdoor water allowed throughout the state. We had a small bed out front where Phillip planted strawberries, but they were all but choked out from a hostile takeover by the yard weeds. I wanted to try some tomato plants this spring since the watering restrictions are a tiny bit more lax and since I'm home now in the early morning hours when I can water them. Before planting anything, I covered the entire bed with landscape fabric to help keep down the weeds. We now have two tomato plants, one pepper plant and some yellow squash in our garden. Here is the garden in all of its 4' x 8' glory.