Overview

 I still have a few things to build -- mainly some supports for the uchuva so that they don't get too rangy. But this photo gives a sense of the garden. The raised beds with the PVC hoops are four by eight feet. And the footprint of the whole garden is roughly twenty-six by twenty-eight feet. Rabbit fencing surrounds the garden to a height of thirty-eight to forty inches and goes below ground four to six inches. Deer netting tops off the fence up to six feet (not enough to stop a determined deer, but I hope that there's enough other vegetation to make the jump seem not worthwhile) and covers the rabbit fence as well, descending six to eight inches below the ground plus a few inches out. The gate is backed by hardware cloth, and a door-sill has stapled to it hardware cloth that extends ten inches below the ground.

Today, I planted cantaloupe and squash seeds -- and built some vertical supports out of bamboo on the narrowest raised bed, and then I planted it with a few tomatoes, jalepeños, and Thai eggplant. I already had a bunch of garlic growing there.

The supports that I built today are a little taller than those that I built inside the cold-frames a few days ago. But the cold frames are super strong and, well, cooler.

The pictured bed probably only needs the vertical support on one side for a few tomatoes, but the symmetry was irresistible. Most of the cabbages, broccoli and kale will probably come out in another month, giving the tomatoes (and a few peppers) room to breathe.
Here's an habenero, dwarfed by some kale:

The broccoli is starting to form heads:

In the next bed, the cabbage is really loving the cool spring:

There are small fruiting trees and shrubs in the garden, too. Eventually, there will be fewer beds when they get big. But now they're pretty small. There are two beach plums that are in bloom right now:

And there is a persimmon as well as a paw-paw:

And blueberries:

I'm a little worried that I planted to corn too early. Only four kernels have shown themselves:

But the peas and beans are doing great and the artichoke seems to be tolerating the cold okay:

Time will tell how the plants do that I squeezed in between the wood-chips and the fence. I had dug a trench so that the fence could extend below ground, and I figured that some roots could only help reinforce the border. The worst that happens is that I pull them out. I planted a couple of grapes, a bunch of raspberries, and five or so tiny tomato seedlings that probably would have been trashed (I planted a ton of tomato seeds expecting that some wouldn't grow -- but they all did).

There are parts of the border that were more intentional. A narrow bed by the gate has bell peppers, Mexican marigold, and nasturtium.

And the wide bed on the west side of the garden has the uchuva, squash, peppers, cauliflower. Here's a picture of one of the simple vertical supports that I'm making for the uchuva.

Seeing the overview photograph and knowing the dimensions doesn't really help one understand the garden. There's a lot going on.