Since I took all of 2012 (and half of 2013) off from updating this blog... here's a quick summary of "Gardening 2012": we had so much fun with our original three square foot garden (SFG) beds, that I built five more beds. I also ventured into vertical gardening, building some nets for the peas and pumpkins to climb. The pumpkins were going great until we were hit by squash vine borers. I'll be extra vigilant for those nasty buggers this year.
In 2013, I built two more frames, bringing us up to ten total, and made them one foot high. We got a lot of great dwarf carrots in the regular 6-inch deep beds last year, but now we're growing the full-sized ones in one and doing potatoes in the other.
Here are the carrots (click on the photos to enlarge):

and the potatoes are booming, too. Are they too crowded? Probably!

These beets are coming along slowly and the radishes are pretty much ready to be picked. There are some scallions and lettuce in here, too:

These butternut squash along the net are growing VERY slowly. The rest of the box is turnips and rutabagas, which I planted just a couple of weeks ago:

These pie pumpkins are coming along nicely. The seedling peppers aren't exactly thriving, but they aren't dying, either:

Some spinach, which isn't growing too well. Most of the beets and broccoli are doing great:

Tomato seedlings, which again - aren't dying, but aren't booming, either:

E's garden - snow peas, sugar snap peas, fennel, broccoli and soybeans:

L's garden - shell peas, lots of tiny basil plants and a couple of mystery beans that she got from Farmer Justin on her field trip to the farm:

Finally... the garlic! Also a couple tomato seedlings, some beets and a bunch of things (more beets, I think...) that I just planted last week and haven't sprouted yet:
