Back garden update

Both back beds are nearly all planted!

Shadier bed.

The shadier bed has spinach, kale, and lettuce up at the top. Then the cabbage, broccoli, and brussels sprouts, last seen up close here. At the bottom of the photo are the beans and peas. Unlike out front, the peas back here have barely grown at all, they get the least sunlight of anything here, poor things.

Sunnier bed.

The sunnier bed has some (tiny) herbs up top, followed by ground cherries and cherry tomatos. Closer to the bottom (and with more space in between) are the larger tomatoes, and then along the bottom are eggplant, cucumber, and a lone pepper plant.

Much of both beds are half-assedly mulched with newspaper weighted down with twigs and other garden detritus. Both beds are also caged in with wildlife netting stretched over 1x2s and held taut by nails at each corner, which can be easily unhooked from the nails so the beds are accessible. I'm not sure what happens when the tomatoes get too tall.

For contrast, here's a view of the back from a month ago, when only the shadier bed was planted. This was when the forsythia was in bloom (also the magnolias in other yards), and the trees were mercifully bare.

April 15th.

All of business towards the front of the garden is the landlord's projects. They've put out grass seeds, but that doesn't do so well when it gets really shady back here, which it will.