2013 Garden plans

Here's a list of what we're planting (or tending*) this spring:

sunflowers
sweet peas
  
strawberries* ~also planting an additional bed of strawberries
apples*
blueberries*
raspberries*
rhubarb*
lettuce ~a variety
carrots
cucumbers
dill ~& other herbs (I haven't decided which herbs yet, other than dill.)  Any suggestions/favorites?  This will be my fourth try for an herb garden and only one of my previous three years was a success. 

peas
beans
squash ~butternut & spaghetti
pumpkins 

Now, for some "before" photos:

Our garden space.  (That giant hole was dug by Ella and Isaac for compost.)

That's our old strawberry bed on the left.  We're going to use that old window frame as a raised bed for the new strawberries.

Happy, hearty rhubarb plants.

Some of our raspberries.  Mark just built that fence to keep them back.  The kids are painting it.

Blueberries (two of our four plants)

More raspberries (and fencing materials for Mark to put up more fencing in those two spots.)

My plan this year is to begin a garden notebook for our family, where we'll record what we planted (varieties), and where- and how it fared and what we observed and learned and should have done differently.  Then we can look back at planning/planting time next year and learn from our previous years' experiences.