Backyard Gardening Caya picking and eating our first raspberries Well, strawberry season has been pretty crappy here in WI this year. The unseasonably warm spring weather caused the berries to ripen before they had fully grown. Good news, we already have red raspberries in our garden and the girls have been enjoying picking and eating them straight off the vine! Note to self - berries are a great introduction to gardening for young kiddos. Our raised veggie garden Our raised vegetable garden is doing really well. I had to put a fence around it since the rabbits were eating the beans, peppers, swiss chard and spinach. The squirrels continue to jump over the fence, into the garden, but I don't really know how to stop that. Ideally, I didn't want to fence in the garden because it makes it less accessible to the girls, but we were starting to lose a lot of our plants. Hopefully, I can take the fence down later in the season once everything is more established.