I love seeing how much you can fit in your little plot! We keep adding every year to our beds, but it's always great to see how much you can do with just a little bit of space and good planning.
How nice to see you can grow okra up there! It is of course a staple here in Georgia, though I have yet to try growing it in our garden. The farmers at the market have it in abundance, but perhaps it would be a fun one to try growing one of these years.
I agree on the grocery list--there's not much produce I buy in the store anymore, having been spoiled by local, fresh goodies. While our garden got hit hard by the hot, dry weather this last month, at least I can always stock up at the farmers market and get the next best thing to homegrown.
I had the hardest time with beans this year, and didn't get any to grow, so I'll definitely be envious of your crop!
This is my first successful year with beans, after two disastrous ones. I'll be putting my first few, with the last few snow peas, my own fattening onions, garlic scapes, one okra pod sliced to visual advantage, and handfuls of basil into a stir fry tonight.
Putting a garden in a small space has been like doing a giant long term puzzle for me. The tomato seedlings, being the last seedlings to go into the ground, always get smushed somewhere. I now know enough about tomatoes to give them lots of space on all sides and sun on at least two, so they get choice spots back in the wild flower garden as those spaces develop. It truly is a food forest back there. So much fun. I go out there to play, not work. What a gift, playtime. Not just at recess, or after homework, but all day long. That is the way to teach and learn, play.