I should just answer everything, "LJ ate my clever reply" because that always happens with my cleverest replies. What I was going to say was:

Yeah, you guessed it, even without a picture. My vegetable garden has lain fallow for the last two years and has gone right back to sod. I was going to do the raised-beds thing as had been suggested to me, but I didn't want to buy material for and build boxes, nor did I have any spare dirt, so I dug trenches and used the dug-up dirt in between them for vegetable beds. If you can't build up, you dig down, right?

It rained on Monday so I did not get a chance to prepare the soil and sow, but I will be planting things that are nice to eat when fresh, cost too much at the store, and taste better when you grow them yourself:

- potatoes (grown-in-the-tire trick)
- onion sets (for green onions and winter onions)
- snow peas
- spinach? (I don't like it but she does)
- tomatoes
- peppers
- corn (just a bit, as my son wants to see it grow)
- watermelons (just for fun)

Meanwhile, the strawberry plants survived the winter, and opium poppies are shooting up everywhere....