I made some huge progress on mine today, but I don't have time to write it out at the moment.
Edit: Okay so today was the big day we budgeted for. The main project was tearing out these MASSIVE bushes that died hard as fuck due to an unseasonally hard freeze. There was three of them and I was really skeptical we would be able to remove them but my girlfriend absolutely proved me wrong. We ordered some otto luyken cherry laurels to put in the space and I think they're going work out great.
Last season we built two small raised beds and one larger bed, and we also have one additional small patch near our patio that was bricked off. The two smaller beds received a bit of fresh soil, fertilizer and my neighbors turned two of their trees into a community mulch pile which helped a lot.
Bed 1 (herbs): basil and thyme seedlings with dill and thai basil seeds. I also got italian parsley but the seeds said to sow after soaking overnight so they're going in tomorrow.
Bed2: habeneros and two wildcard pepper seedlings that looked really healthy. Last summer I got into fermenting and this summer I think I can perfect my hot sauces. Last year I didn't get the peppers started until May so I'm hopeful the yields will be nicer.
The bigger bed, we're saving for next week. I'm going to grow some amaranth bc it's super easy and I think they look alien af. We've got room for a couple other plants in the bed and haven't really decided what we want to put in it yet. Maybe tomatoes, maybe just more peppers ¯_(ツ)_/¯
My girlfriend set up a flower bed, can't remember their names but she likes them a lot so that's good enough for me. We also found some lavender, a nice small marigold, and a curly-cue rush to put in outdoor pots, a hanging flower of some sort, and a polka-dot pothos looking dude for the bathroom.
It's been a super rewarding day tbh, and I'm really lucky to live in a warm climate.
Time travels different in the upside-down part of hellworld, so it's starting to get cooler here and it's also been pissing with rain the last couple of weeks
Not the most successful growing season ever, but not dreadful. My new dwarf lemon and dwarf kumquat trees have grown up nicely (and the kumquat tree has even fruited already), although their new growth had to be aggressively pruned back for really stubborn leafminer a couple of times. Lime tree gave a toooonne of fruit for a lot of very tasty G&Ts etc. Chilis are growing beautifully, as are the cherry tomatoes, mint is unkillable as always. Cucumbers were a bit of a non-starter this year, which was a shame cos they're normally great but it's mostly my fault - I was slack in the early fragile stages and then never got around to planting new seeds