For real

I'm starting the garden tomorrow. It's not going to be exactly as I planned, which isn't a surprise. Here's the new plan:

• Build one 4' x 4' raised bed.
• Make container soil out of six cubic feet each of compost (picking up for free from the city), vermiculite (already got from Menards), and coconut coir (already got from Mother Earth Gardens - a totally awesome place, by the way).
• Fill with said soil the 4' x 4' bed along with two drawers I salvaged from my bedroom closet. 
• Make fertilizer out of alfalfa meal, bone meal, and kelp meal and mix some of that into the containers.
• Plant some stuff! Like:
• Calendula
• Thyme (in its own container)
• Catnip (in its own container)
• Lacinato kale
• Parlsey
• Arugula
• Lettuce mix
• Scallions
• Carrots (I'm using 10" x 1" boards for the raised bed, which I'm hoping will be deep enough.)
• Plant more stuff next weekend (since the average last frost date for my area will have passed), like:
• Lemon cucumber
• Shintokiwa cucumber
• Sweet Mama squash
• Pole beans
• Basil
• Eventually buy transplants:
• Tomatoes (at least two different kinds - hopefully I can find Sungold)
• Peppers (mild and hot)
• Eggplant
• Watermelon
• Echinacea

I think this is how I'll lay it out:

I can't wait to get started. The four day weekend we took to move ended up including absolutely no time for anything outside. And today involved over eight hours of work putting in the dishwasher. But it's in!!! Not like I would have wanted to do garden stuff in 40-degree drizzle, anyway.