Current Status:

Potatoes (8 rows).  10% of them are now flowering.

Beans - Yellow: 2 Rows, 2 weeks to flowers.

Beans - Green: 2 Rows, 1 week to flowers.

Beans - Purple, Flowering this week.

Zucchini 4 plants - Flowering this week.

Tomatoes - Cherry: Green fruit is now on the vine

Pumpkins - Started

Cantaloupe - Started

Our first major goal when we got to our new house was to build a larger version of the garden we had back in Barrhaven.  We took into account some of the lessons that we learned (such as even in the city things will eat what you're growing), and with a bit of research online started work.

Building on Lessons Learnt...

We wanted to have something that was raised this time so that we could keep weeds out and a defined perimiter.  This means that we needed a wood which wasn't going to rot if it was in contact with the earth for a long period of time, which naturally lead us to Cedar.  Thankfully we have a number of them on our property, which meant that getting the materials was as easy as finding a grove of trees, and selectively harvesting. 

We will put up pictures from this as we get a chance.

Then to keep the animals out we figured we would need posts and a top rail, and we can use chicken wire to keep out small animals and pests, and a couple of outdoor hinges and a door so that us humans can get in.  Our estimate on this was $100 for hardware (I'll post back how we did).

We also plan on keeping some things that take up a lot of space such as Corn and Rhubarb outside the garden to cut down on the amount of space we needed.

Size, Location

We wanted to maximize the amount of light that the garden got, since it's essentially a huge pile of solar pannels that convert sunlight into food instead of electricity.

This meant that we wanted to find a location that would have the most light during the summer.  Since we wanted to have it built in the spring, we had to make some assumptions, so we watched the sun during the Winter, and found a location that had maximum southern exposure as well as East/West. 

The size of the garden is going to be determined by the logs that we cut.  I had put them all to approximately 3m (12 foot) logs so that I could haul them around on my own, which then becomes 1 unit.  We figure the garden will be 3x2, or 36x24 roughly, for about 860 square feet of space inside the fence.