A Garden!!!

I have wanted a garden for YEARS!! At our old house, we were so covered with trees that NOTHING grew except moss. It was awful. I tried tulips but they grew to almost 2 feet tall at a 45 degree angle with one lone leaf and a tiny little flower. They were SOOO starved for sunshine. So when we moved here with nary a tree on the property and in full sun - I was so excited to have a garden. Our yard has been a work in progress - still is, but I finally have my garden!

I started it last weekend and had a wonderful helper -

We got this done in 2 hours:

Then Ryan helped me and we had this:

And now it looks like this:

We planted chives, basil, oregano, carrots, lettuce, beans and flowers. We will pick up some tomatoes this week as well as some other seeds. I want to plant potatoes in a garbage sack and the kids really want to do pumpkins and watermelon. Oh my - here I go, jumping in with both feet!!!

The only unknown is how to keep the deer away. We haven't seen them but a few times in the last year, but as my friend said "plant things and they will come..." Anyone have any creative ideas to keep them at bay? (besides the obvious - a fence... hopefully that will happen sometime this summer.) I may just take to sleeping outside with a big stick - screaming in the middle of the night, "Stay away from my precious garden!!"