A few weeks ago, I read Square Foot Gardening.  We have a raised bed at the back of our yard, and needed to replace much of the dirt.  I tried to shovel it out, but it was very hard.  Our friends loaned us their electric rototiller and that was such a big help!  Then we carted out several wheel barrels full, and dispersed it around the other garden areas.  We didn't take out 6" like I'd hoped, but quite a bit.  So, on Friday, we ordered some good (hopefully!) soil and they delivered it just a couple of hours later, on our driveway!

 Getting ready:

The dirt arrives (above)

Then my boys hauled it to the backyard:

(yes, they need haircuts.  tomorrow!)

And then we planted!

Tomatoes:

Peppers:

We also planted lettuce seedlings, but the record high temps killed it right away.  Also, we are having trouble with bugs eating the leaves. We did all of this on Friday.  Can't wait to have our own yummy tomatoes. Oh, and we didn't really do Square Foot Gardening afterall.  Our area is so small, we just did rows.  In the corner area, I did plant green beans and radishes in squares, so we will see.  But what I did learn is that new soil is important and will hopefully cut down on the weeds.  And that we don't need to space things so far apart.  Again, we will see how that goes.