Yesterday I evicted the chickens from our fenced vegetable garden, and prepared it for planting — which Jenn subsequently did.

Here’s a wide-angle photo of the veggie garden as the chickens left it, mostly bare of plants (and dirt strewn everywhere):

I started with a layer of homemade compost, from the three old plastic compost bins:

Here’s the veggie garden with piles of compost:

Then a layer of soil on top:

And with some of the beds planted:

There are tomatoes in this bed, plus some sunflowers in the potato planters on the right (we’re not going to bother with potatoes this year):

Pumpkin and zucchini in here (a few chickens visible in their run in the background):

Finally, tomatillos, jalapeño, cherry tomato:

We’ll probably add some more sunflowers in the fourth bed, plus some lettuce and kale (which are primarily as treats for the chickens).

The plants are all very small at present, but they’ll grow fast!