Garden Harvest & Update October 28

I'm a little behind in updating my harvest tallies, mostly because I've not been taking photos of the things I've harvested. I've been picking random green onions, peas, lettuce, broccoli, etc but it hasn't really been photo-worthy. 

As of today, October 28, I'm up to 223 pounds 2 ounces of food harvested. Not too shabby! Here's some lettuce & peas I picked today:

And yet ANOTHER butterfly that emerged 2 days ago:

I also set up a new 4' x 4' bed in the FRONT YARD, courtesy of my neighbor:

More details on this in Building a Raised Bed Garden!

And I completely relandscaped the bed on the south side of the house. Click here to sorta see what it looked like before I ripped it out.

This is the "during" photo-after I'd ripped out all the plants, ripped out the brick edging and before I added the new topsoil. 

Here's the "after" photo: all heat loving/tolerant plants like grasses, iris, flax, candytuft, lavender, etc. I'd really like to rip out ALL of the grass in this area, put in a better stepping stone type pathway and add gravel and xeriscape, but I'm pretty certain my 3 year old would have the gravel EVERYWHERE and the kids would trample the plants as this is the pathway to the backyard. 

That sums up the past 10 days or so of garden efforts. I've got a list a mile long of projects to complete before the weather REALLY turns cold, but lists are more like lofty expectations for me. I'll be happy to get half of it done. 

Linked to: Daphne's Dandelions