How is your garden doing?! Post some pics.
I tilled a vacant area inside (the fenced) garden. Man, poor soul quality, powdery, sandy I reckon. Dirt, sucky dirt. Lots of rocks and stone. I'm not going the full tilt truckload of compost route, not now anyway. Will put in fall vegetables, see what happens. Top tilled a 8x50 area outside the existing 12x50 fenced area I will be expanding to next year, with permanent perimeter fencing. Will let the grass/weeds die on the surface, deeper till, and plant a cover crop to till under next early spring. I gotta get some organic matter into that "soil".
It's running late for some things, but I have more cucumber seedlings(for later pickling), yellow squash(for eating, freezing once cooked, and maybe try some dehydrating), butternut squash(might be pushed for time in the growing season), and pumpkins! The pumpkins are about 100 days until harvest. Might juuuust squeeze by with pumpkins for Halloween. I have 12 seedlings, only going to plant 2-3 inside a separate dedicated fenced area. Maybe 2-3 randomly on the property, "wild", if the deer get em they get em. The rest I'll be delivering and planting for relatives, a random spot "wild" where they don't have to mow.
Quite a journey so far. Hopefully I'm learning some things from which I can benefit in the future. Hard work now might make things less difficult in the years to come. It's kind of sobering to think, overall you only get one opportunity per year. At 60, how many more do I have left. I've seen what (old) age does to people, it ain't pretty, too many difficulties drastically reducing the quality of life. That ain't for me, wouldn't look forward to it. Average life expectancy, for males, he-man such as myself, 'bout 77, or less. Sounds about right. 16 more chances, maybe. 16 chances ain't too bad. Sweet 16.