It starts with a removed swing set and a class about tomatoes...

When we bought our house in May 2011,  this part of the yard contained a swing set:

We gave the set away to a nice family from Orange County, then proceeded to store extra soil and rocks from the atrium re-do, which became Matilda's favorite digging spot....

And now our epic journey has begun: this weekend we attended a "CSUN-al" gardening class which covered tomatoes - different varieties, how to plant them, etc. Scott Daigre from Tomatomania got the crowd all excited, and this became the starting point of our planning to create a raised bed garden in the back corner of our yard.