The garden is done....before and after.

I moved into this house on a hill and wanted to garden. It was built on rock tho so I had to put in a raised bed garden. This is the picture story of it being built. This is the before of my backyard. As you can see its a steep hill.

This is a shot of the after but you really need to see all the parts to see how its transformed the spot.

This is the shot at the bottom of my front porch steps. My front porch is actually my side yard. Its the only place I have that I can actually use the land to grow. This is before.

This is looking down those steps at the after on this side of the yard. Im just beginning to plant so this yr. will be one big experiment since Im starting so late.

Left side yard, before.

One of the boxes on left side, after. Ill be planting seeds in this one. For now I put a Welcome sign in the dirt.

That gate is the entry into my side yard. Next to the garage door Im going to put a rock border and a plant.

Right side yard. It had a rock base set up for garbage cans before. We built a raised bed/compose bin here now.

Right side yard, after. You see the big split box in the corner now. Several beds have been built going down the fence and the fence is in. The front bed is built to use up what land was left but leave the area where the septic system is open, in case of any problems. I decided for now that bed will have my herbs.

Right side yard, before. You can see whats left of the former garden. I had everything ripped out since the plantings made no sense and were very weedy too. Ill reuse those concrete borders to make some smaller planters near the beds.

This is after where the former garden was. These are some of the beds there now. Thats broccoli and Brussels sprouts planted.

Before, it starts to go down hill at the end here.

Few more beds near the down hill area.

There are pavers and steps that start just past the porch which goes down the steep slope and behind the house.

Not sure you can see it clearly but theres the steps going down. There are pavers off to the right which go to a premade by former owners, flat area bordered by rocks. I decided to put more beds there.

This is the fence and gate after. I thought he would leave it rustic but he made these nice end caps to finish the fence off.

This is looking up at the fence and gate, after. As you can see its a very uneven area so I think he did pretty good.

This is the before of that flat area behind the house. This house was built on rock fill tho and even anchoring the beds was hard because of that. So thats why I did raised beds everywhere.

This is after with the raised beds. This is the sunny side of the house too so for now I put in whatever tomatoes and peppers I had . Nothing may grow cuz its late in the season but I want to see how thing do back there for next yr. The zucchini has grown a few in. tho since that plant was put in.

One more shot of the gate and fence, closed this time. I needed a fenced area too for my dog, not just to keep the critters out.

And here is my Paradise. The fence is only 5ft high which meant I didn't need a permit.  And yes we do get deer around here. But everything past the fencing is a very steep grade so the deer would have to really work at getting in there. And if they do I can still legally add something to the top of the fence if I need to.  So now its finally Home Sweet Home and Garden.