We started our garden in 2022 with four raised beds and a dream. Our first summer here, we experimented with growing everything we could: our strawberries were snatched by squirrels before we had a chance to taste them, but our tomato plants were prolific… until the the dry summer heat caused them all to split. Our carrots were tiny, but we ate carrot top pesto for days on end. And despite a late summer drought, we had an abundance of snap peas until our first frost in October.