Sharecropper garden

We told our elderly neighbors we were going to dig up our front yard and create an edible estate. They responded by offering us there 900 sq foot garden instead.
March 20. Dig up as many noxious weeds as possible.
April 1 Plant a cover crop of annual rye. [weather did not cooperate.
May 1-15. Establish 4 raised beds using any old piece of lumber from the back of garage pile.Laid weed cloth and straw in the paths to supress the bind weed infestation. The beds are hand weeded
May 15-20 Haul in 2-3 yards of homemade compost. Last fall we collected all the maple leaves from our block of 7th Ave [10 mature trees]. Created a huge windrow in our backyard, added chicken manure and bio-char. This stuff was steaming in the middle of last January under 3-4 ft of snow and ice, just amazing. Anyway, this garden soil was pretty depleted after 60 years of non-organic style gardening.

May 15-Jun-15 Planted unusal [high prices in the store or farmers market] varieties of classic garden veggies. Pictures were taken on March 21, July 7, July 17, Aug 4.
We put a thick layer of rough compost mulch down two weeks ago. The garden went nuts absorbing the compost tea.