earlier this spring i finished the basic bricking of the 3 terraced beds in the front yard. 2-3 weeks ago we planted:

5 strawberry plants (several are blooming, and one has a little green strawberry)
12 tomato plants (2 lemon boy, 2 santa f1, 2 sweet 100s, 2 patio, and 4 yellow pear)
4 pepper plants (1 super chili - 4 fruit already, 1 caribbean red hot, 1 sweet banana and 1 golden bell)

in addition, due to some injudicious composting, we have about 7 pumpkin plants (several have set blossoms) and a plethora of small gourd plants erupting from the beds. and a lone resurrected persimmon tomato plant from an unfortunate pre-cold-snap planting that left a whole slew of tomato and cucumber plants dead.

i put herb balls in the edge of one of the beds, but they don’t seem to be doing very well. i also put 3 of the balls (thyme, chives and parsley) in a shallow pot next to the bed; those have germinated and seem to be doing well.
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¹ that’s what a perpetually snarky and depressed friend called it. needless to say, he’s not gettin’ any tomatoes, if we should grow any.