my raised-bed vegetable garden

For the past several weeks I have been busy building a raised-bed vegetable garden. Yes, I feel old; when I was younger I thought only old people (i.e. my parent's generation) are interested in gardening. I guess I'm one of them now.

The dimension of the garden is 4'x8'x16". I was afraid that the 1" ceder board wouldn't hold the weight of the soil on the long side so we (Burton and I) put some reinforcements. The total costs for building it (hinges + ceder + soil + peat moss) was about CDN$200.

Currently we have 5 different varieties of tomatoes, 2 pots of opo gourd (瓠瓜), 4 pots of eggplants (茄子), 1 pot of chili pepper (辣椒), 4 pots of Thai Basil (九層塔), 1 pot of rosemary (迷迭香), some bokchoi (上海白菜), chives (蝦夷蔥), and green onions. We'll see how well it grows.