Spring 2013 Garden (and new neighbor update)

There is something so calming, so satisfying, so beautiful about seeing a garden grow. I love it.
This year I didn't get my garden in quite as early as I wanted to but it's all in now. We had a lot of grass creeping in from the bordering field and decided to spray all the weeds, which had to sit for about two weeks before we could till it all up again. It will make it so much nicer to weed later on though!
I have 32 tomatoes planted right now! (Can you say "spaghetti sauce and salsa this fall"? Yes, I think so.) I started some from seed and transplanted some I bought at the nursery, in my greenhouse. I love having a greenhouse. So nice. I also love having irrigation water and a riser right in my garden that a handy man husband rigged up with pvc pipe to flood irrigate each row all at once. Makes watering so quick and easy and puts the water only where I want it.
I'm very much looking forward to a big, beautiful garden this year (can you tell?)!

Update on our robin's nest....

and then there were three....

and then there were four. Oh baby!