Update!

It's been two months. We forgot to take pictures and update everyone on our progress along the way.

Not too much has happened except that the paving is now complete and the plants have grown quite a bit!!! I spent a solid five days fitting together a puzzle of paving stones. My daily routine was to crank up the radio (OPB), lay out a bunch of stones the sidewalk, then wander around finding the perfect piece, the path would slowly fill in around each bed, then sweep the gravel into the cracks, clear all the stones off the sidewalk for the night, and get a big pat on the back from Mike when he comes home from work. I decided to scatter the remaining purple stones kind of like stepping stones in the path.

Now that winter and rains are on their way, I put up cloches (French for bell, since plants were often covered with glass bells to protect them from frost) over the back two beds. Some bent PVC pipes and some plastic sheeting clipped on gives you a cheap greenhouse. Of course, this warms the bed up, but perhaps more importantly in Portland, it keeps the plants dry from the constant winter drizzle.