I had a nice garden this summer, and fortunately for me, I didn't have to do all of the work.... I am actually a real novice at gardening as I haven't had to do the whole thing alone.  The bad part is that I tend to learn best from my mistakes so while I've had a great garden the past few years I don't know alot of the "theory" as I didn't have the opportunity to screw it up.

I've decided to start a new venture.  I was wanting to mainly fill the empty void that is an upper balcony with a container garden.  I had planted a small assortment of things including lettuce, spinach, arugula, chervil, raddichio, and bunching onions.  The problem was that there just wasn't enough sunlight in this location.

So the garden was moved to the back deck where it seems to be doing well so far.  I did pick a few baby lettuce leaves to add to todays salad.  I also have some kale to plant, and want to add more lettuces.  We should have another 8-10 weeks before first frost here so I'm wanting to take advantage of this time.  I'm also considering cold frames or just pulling things into the house overnight and see how they do this winter....  Really I'm still just experimenting....