The evolution of a garden

My wonderful wife has been wanting a garden to plant flowers and vegetables in since we moved in. We weren't sure where we wanted to put the garden though and it took our green thumb neighbor to come over and offer some advice and design tips on where it should go.

I created a plan in Google's SketchUp (that went through several iterations with the design approval committee). We started last year with a small inner square that was functional but wasn't the final look that we were going for. . .
Step #1 - Kill grass - Somewhat ironic after all the trouble we went through to actually get grass here.
By July of 2010, we had veggies and flowers. . .


This year, we enlarged the garden from 16' x 16' to 27' x 27'.
Purchase five tons of crushed Pennsylvania redstone, 300' of edging material, and add labor. Keeping the edging in place before the stone and dirt were added took over a hundred wood stakes.

How things are currently looking as of this rainy morning.