One of the many varieties of peppers we've planted this year. We usually buy six-packs of started plants and grow way more than we can eat or even give away; this year we found a little discipline, bought the same variety of plants we like (habanero, jalapeno, cayenne, banana, pequin, I'm sure I'm forgetting some) and only used 1-2 of each plant. We didn't have our act together to give them away, so we let them die. The horror! Now we have far more different varieties fitting into a much smaller space!


Snap peas


Lavender


Blueberries!


In the blueberry barrel.


We have some first-year strawberry plants that are doing very well in a raised bed, but our second-year plants are not up to snuff - lots of small berries that come out resting on the ground and get picked apart by sowbugs before they can even ripen. We'd heard that strawberr plants do best in their second year (and should be replaced after that). Not sure what's happening to ours - but it makes me want to replace them every year! - Jennifer