I've got the bulk of my container garden in pots and growing. I hit the Gore Place plant sale (they grow heirloom vegetables and ornamentals in their greenhouse out in Waltham) and snagged the majority of our vegetables. I now have two kinds of tomatoes growing, a Brandywine and a Gooseberry (yellow, grape tomatoes), eggplant, zucchini, peppers, strawberries and herbs (a crazy-prolific oregano plant, along with two kinds of rosemary, a golden sage and a purple sage, thyme and two kinds of basil). 
I'm going to keep my eye out for a couple used, scavenged, or free children's wagons so that I can move the plants around as needed. Also, I'll be looking for a way to more attractively group them, perhaps raising some up on blocks, etc. They're all lift-able, even when watered, since I didn't fill them all the way with soil, but rather added old milk jugs and upside-down plastic planters inside the pots before filling with soil and transplanting them. So I can indeed still lift them. But even in their semi-haphazard state, I love looking them at them when I get back home. I can't wait to see what produces!
Our flower garden, planned and planted with our upstairs neighbor, seems to be coming back strong for the most part. The front of the plot seems strangely vacant, so my fear is that those perennials didn't make it. But we'll see. Everything else (the purple coneflower, the phlox, and the ornamental grass look hardy and full). Can't wait for those blooms to appear! Here is a view of the flower garden last summer when we planted it. So you can see, something hasn't come back.
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