Do you have a garden?

I am not particularly fond of weeding and the work, but I am very fond of fresh produce, especially fresh tomatoes. So, after much delay, my garden it being transferred from containers to the strip I have for it. It's a little strange--a 2' by 110' strip along the back fence. It allows me plenty of room, though, for vegetables and herbs. I have perennial herbs, like lavender, sage, lemon balm, catnip (the cats try to eat it right down to the ground, but it appears to have established itself), rosemary, and usually add basil and oregano, along with vegetables--tomatoes (I know it's really a fruit), peppers sweet and hot, sweet onions, summer squash (yellow zucchini is my preference), and butternut for a winter variety.

I did NOT prepare the ground last fall. My daughter got married in October, so I was sort of preoccupied with that. Now, I'm paying for it. I think, though, I will have raised beds put in next year. It will mean having someone raise the underground sprinklers, which will be a pain, but I think it will be work it in the long run.