When we first bought there was no garden here, but evidence that our PO had done a little planting (the neighbors said a couple tomatoes and annual flowers). I made a long skinny garden, roughly 2x8 there last year. It is lined with the Purlington bricks that are from the old street out front. The bricks actually have a neat history. They are from the street we live on, when, about forty or fifty years ago, the city replaced the bricks with pavement. They also replaced the sidewalk at that time. If you look in yards down our block, you will almost certainly see some of these bricks. Our PO saved a whole pile of broken sidewalk pieces in our back yard too. Far less cool than the bricks.
This year I went crazy with the tiller and expanded the garden to it's current size, which is about 5x20. Here is the garden on May 1st.
Here is the garden today. Note that you can't even see the 4ft high currant bush at the other end of the garden.
Here is the garden today. Note that you can't even see the 4ft high currant bush at the other end of the garden. 
A view from the side:
Here is my tomato cage supported by bungee cords. These are all heirloom tomatoes I planted from the Friends School Plant Sale. I would give you specifics on this monster, but it devoured its tag and I don't remember which order I planted them in.
I do, however, know what these are. These are Black Cherry Tomatoes, though by the size of them they should really be called Black Golf Ball Tomatoes. This is my first tomato to begin showing color. Things seem to be ripening later this year. This weekend is my nephew's birthday, and I remember trying to get his sister and him to eat the tomatoes last year at this time and they refused. 
This is a picture of my rogue tomatoes. The ones that mysteriously came up from seed. They are uncaged and haven't been touched; they are as big as the heirlooms. They are sweet 100's.
Finally, my coneflowers. I am really enjoying these guys. They cheer me up every time I pass them. 
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