Oh, Ari - so sorry your garden got eaten! And by your rescue pup, yet. Hope she didn't suffer any ill effects from her impromptu "salad."
The husband and I got the rest of the veggie patch fenced and a door installed, and he's decided to make a door for the perennial bed's fence as well. I'm glad because right now the only way to access it is via a staircase from our deck, which makes transporting stuff (like bags of garden soil and mulch) very tedious.
When we put up the fence in front of the perennial bed, of necessity we had to include a wedge of lawn. Rather than deal with mowing grass inside said fence, I decided to extend the bed. We spent a day sod-busting, then another day hoeing up the existing dirt and amending it with garden soil. I spent a major chunk of change on new plants and spend a lot of time contemplating the new bed and trying to figure out where to put things. My big splurge was a peony - I've always wanted one. I also got varieties of dianthus, bee balm, coneflower, black-eyed susan, salvia and lobelia, plus something called a "sedum tile" - a variety of mini-sedums planted in a 2'x1' tray of peat moss. The idea is that you just take it out of the tray, plop it where you want it, and water it in. You can also cut it to shape. I'm waiting until John finishes installing the door (which will probably happen today) before planting. I'm hoping to have a garden that will be attractive to pollinators. A lot of my new plants are native species, too, so I'm feeling virtuous about that.
Meanwhile in the vegetable front, my deck boxes of radishes and spinach are doing very well, and my indoor seedlings are hanging in there. This week I selected the most vigorous tomato seedlings and transplanted them into potting soil (seed-growing medium doesn't have much nutrition, and once the seedlings have put out their true leaves they need fertilization). I can only handle about ten tomato plants in my fully-enclosed "tomato fortress," but I planted three times that number just in case some of the seedlings didn't make it. So I transplanted one each of the heirloom varieties Stump of the World, Gezahnte, Yellow Pear, Cherokee Purple, Woodles Orange and Matt's Wild Cherry, and four each of Opalka Polish Paste (strictly for making tomato sauce). I still have some viable seedlings in the seed-growing medium and may yet transplant those to give to friends. I also repotted my Griller zucchini spouts because they're growing so vigorously that they were getting root-bound (they were a gift from shakeysix - thanks, shakey!), and it's too soon yet for them to go into the garden.
I planted some kale, chard, carrots and lettuce in the garden. No action yet from the carrots; a little from the chard and lettuce, but I've already had to thin the kale. Impatiently waiting for warmer weather so I can plant beans - the only other plant I'll direct-sow. Everything else is coming from my little indoor greenhouse.
The husband and I got the rest of the veggie patch fenced and a door installed, and he's decided to make a door for the perennial bed's fence as well. I'm glad because right now the only way to access it is via a staircase from our deck, which makes transporting stuff (like bags of garden soil and mulch) very tedious.
When we put up the fence in front of the perennial bed, of necessity we had to include a wedge of lawn. Rather than deal with mowing grass inside said fence, I decided to extend the bed. We spent a day sod-busting, then another day hoeing up the existing dirt and amending it with garden soil. I spent a major chunk of change on new plants and spend a lot of time contemplating the new bed and trying to figure out where to put things. My big splurge was a peony - I've always wanted one. I also got varieties of dianthus, bee balm, coneflower, black-eyed susan, salvia and lobelia, plus something called a "sedum tile" - a variety of mini-sedums planted in a 2'x1' tray of peat moss. The idea is that you just take it out of the tray, plop it where you want it, and water it in. You can also cut it to shape. I'm waiting until John finishes installing the door (which will probably happen today) before planting. I'm hoping to have a garden that will be attractive to pollinators. A lot of my new plants are native species, too, so I'm feeling virtuous about that.
Meanwhile in the vegetable front, my deck boxes of radishes and spinach are doing very well, and my indoor seedlings are hanging in there. This week I selected the most vigorous tomato seedlings and transplanted them into potting soil (seed-growing medium doesn't have much nutrition, and once the seedlings have put out their true leaves they need fertilization). I can only handle about ten tomato plants in my fully-enclosed "tomato fortress," but I planted three times that number just in case some of the seedlings didn't make it. So I transplanted one each of the heirloom varieties Stump of the World, Gezahnte, Yellow Pear, Cherokee Purple, Woodles Orange and Matt's Wild Cherry, and four each of Opalka Polish Paste (strictly for making tomato sauce). I still have some viable seedlings in the seed-growing medium and may yet transplant those to give to friends. I also repotted my Griller zucchini spouts because they're growing so vigorously that they were getting root-bound (they were a gift from shakeysix - thanks, shakey!), and it's too soon yet for them to go into the garden.
I planted some kale, chard, carrots and lettuce in the garden. No action yet from the carrots; a little from the chard and lettuce, but I've already had to thin the kale. Impatiently waiting for warmer weather so I can plant beans - the only other plant I'll direct-sow. Everything else is coming from my little indoor greenhouse.
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Isn't it funny how we love our gardens and we love other people loving their gardens too?
It's massive and awesome. She is more purple than blue, but still so glorious on her own indeed! And the size of the thing! More flowers still to come! I'm so pleased.
That means your soil condition is good! 
Oh the shame. That sure is one humility lesson.