Progress

I feel like I'm finally starting to see a little progress in my garden. Bringing in the mulch has helped tremendously just by making things look more orderly. And today I worked some more on hauling in buckets of the compost I had delivered to build up two raised beds. I've planted one of them with two bell peppers, two roma bean plants, and the volunteer berry plant that I found in one of the other beds. Then I thinned the baby carrots I'd planted in a container a few weeks ago and transplanted the thinned-out seedlings into the new bed alongside the peppers and beans. I also thinned out the spinach seedlings and transplanted the thinned-out ones to the second new bed. I'm not sure the transplants will take (especially the carrots--they seemed so fragile), but I thought I'd give it a shot. I still have to build up one more bed, but already the area looks so much better. Here is what it looked like in mid-April:

And here's what it looks like now:

Aside from that, things are filling out and blooming, including more iris (finally some blue ones!) and the freesia--my all-time favorite flower. It's rewarding to start to get some payback for my efforts.

Even Linus, the Garden Supervisor approves: