We're doing potatoes under hay again this year. I'm killing 200-300 slugs every evening on just this patch of 25 m2, although the potato plants weren't bothered by the hordes last year (even though they hardly flowered). That's picture 1.
Because there was no frost, we'll have cherries and apples for the first time this year (fingers crossed). My wife made a guild of chives, rhubarb, Dutch clover and yarrow around one of the apple trees. That's picture 2 and 3.
The garden is coming along nicely, though not great. April was incredibly warm and moist, and May has been quite humid so far. Huge rains last night and today, almost causing the ditch to overflow, as well as our pond. In fact, water from the fields behind our house were overflowing so much that the water came through the stones below the railroad tracks, causing our pond to colour brown. And just a few days ago the farmer sprayed God knows what...
But, anyway, garden is picture 4. We want to double this capacity next year.
It looks like we'll also have more berries and hazelnuts this year. Unfortunately our new apricot was struck with Monilia laxa, so we had to cut it back. Hopefully we can get rid of it next year.
All in all, it looks like we'll improve on last year, but we still need to get our soil health up.