The grids are finally done for my square-foot gardens! (Please excuse the awful stain colour; I went with a mis-tint to save a couple of dollars.) I started gridding last night but the black flies carried me off and deposited me at my door so I took that as a sign that it was time to go in. The weather has been so crappy here lately (and, of course, I’m on holidays) that you have to do what you can when you can and just stop when it gets dark or rains. I have a forecast application in my Firefox browser and every day for this week it’s been telling me that the current day is going to have a good chance of rain but the next one will be sunny and rain-free, yet when that "next" day arrives, the forecast shows the same as the previous day - rain with the "next" day being nice. Figures that today it’s not even doing that; it’s supposed to be nice today (it’s not) and thunderstorms Friday and Saturday. Sigh. But, I digress. The garden…

The boxes were supposed to be 4 feet x 5 feet but that got mixed up in translation apparently and my dad cut the boards so the outside dimensions are roughly that. My "squares" are a little rectangular as a result. I have four beds running in an east-west direction. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll get the plants into them. Very few things will be grown from seed this year. The plants I had started in the house did great but then were inside so long (due to the cold weather this spring) that they kind of reached their peak and decided they’d rather die than spend another day indoors, so the plants I currently have (apart from my hardy peppers, which survived and are still thriving) came from a garden centre. I will be planting onion bulbs and carrot seeds but everything else (I think) is pre-started.

And an expanded view of the back yard. With the lawn freshly cut with my old-but-new-to-me reel mower (which is quite a bit noisier than I had expected). In the back right corner is a shed; the yard extends a shed-width further to right of this picture and is bordered by another fence for a fully enclosed back yard. The fence piece in the middle forefront of the picture (perpendicular to the gate) runs up the side of the stairs  to my back door. The small rock-enclosed garden at the back of the yard needs to be shifted to the right a little more; it was moved from the back left corner to make room for the last raised bed and to fill a bit of a hollow in the middle along the back fence. Hopefully there will soon be a composter of some sort next to the shed at the back fence too.