This Got Out of Hand Quickly

I may have mentioned that I ended up with twice as many tomato starts as expected.  Then the chard and kale did very well, and the broccoli lasted longer than it was supposed to.  Here comes the summer planting season, and I'm out of space.

There is no way I'm making back the $150 or so I spent on pots and soil.  At least not this year.  That's fifty pounds of tomatoes.  Sure, I'm growing $100 of kale annually, and possibly $50 of artichokes.  I fully expect everything else to be a monetary loss, and the main benefit is the exercise and outdoor time.  Mental health benefits cannot be ignored in the equation, either.

The non-lawn parts of the back yard are now pretty solidly vegetable pots.  One tomato ended up in the front yard in an under-used spot.  The pumpkin and watermelon are going to have to go in bowl pots, or I'll bury a cheap pot in some of the front landscaping that's too poor for direct sowing.

The chicken wire is back up against the back wall for a pot of cherry tomatoes.  I built a baseboard trim and string trellis for two longer planter boxes of tomatoes and pole beans.  Bush beans are in the pot that Eggy died in.  Hoping they aren't subject to whatever killed it.

Emotionally, I'm getting closer to redoing the entire back yard with garden beds.  There was a day of watching YouTube videos.  The irrigation part is going to be expensive, but I could build the beds on my own and water by hand until then.  I was also eyeing some fruit trees at Home Depot.  I'll have to do more research and save up.