In my
first post on the Garden Project of 2017, I spoke about the "why" - namely, eliminating the need for chicken wire fencing around Area #2 by transitioning those beds from vegetables to ornamental.
BTW, if you find yourself saying "I don't recall seeing that post", I'm not surprised since I goofed when posting it. I inadvertently hit "publish" before the post was ready and then promptly reverted it to a draft. What I didn't realize was that when I did eventually publish, it would post as of the original date, which in this case was 3 days earlier. Oops. Next time this happens (and we all know there will be a next time, don't we), I'll have to remember to copy and paste to a new post.
Now, back to the topic at hand - this years garden project. Since the beds in Area #2 will become cutting flower beds, I will need to build four new vegetable beds elsewhere. The best solution is to expand Area #1 but this involves dealing with a couple of issues: (1) two large spruce trees growing right in the middle of where the expansion would be and (2) lack of privacy.