I'm a bit late taking a picture
but just wanted to share. I'm only posting one picture because they are big and I don't have time to resize. I actually have 3 raised beds but for some reason only took pictures of 2 of them. This was 5 days or so ago and since then nearly everything has finally come up except the zucchini. Lots of green now. 
That bit of green you see in the picture was some 'curly watercress' that you just sprinkle on top of the dirt, so it came up fast. Oh, and the radishes are there too, in the corner.
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First picture is onions on the right, zucchini on the left (first leaf poked through today! you can't see it in the picture though). Second picture is a close up of carrots. Third is my 16 square box - you can see nearly everything is up. You can tell the seed from the watercress escaped in the heavy rain we had soon after I seeded, LOL. The radishes need thinning - I was careful about how many I planted and EVERY seed germinated. Then there's a picture of my container garden (2 tomato plants, 2 hot pepper plants, some herbs) and a picture of the start of my indoor herb garden (the rosemary hasn't germinated, I'll likely have to replant, it's been 3+ weeks) and my daughter's bean plant they grew in class.
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My backyard faces east. I put the raised beds against the north fence, facing south to get more light. Confused yet? lol.
I've thought about training squash and pumpkin vines to go vertical, but the plant itself still takes up a lot of room. I'm going to train my cucumbers...if I can find something for them to climb (all our garden places are sold out or don't have what I'm looking for). I might get some more raised beds next year...I'll be going back to work soon (currently f/t student, almost done) so will be able to afford the ready-made fancy kind, LOL. I love the beds my dad made though. I just want to get some other shapes and then landscape my backyard, which is currently just sod that the builder put in. Oh, I did plant some scarlet runner beans in my front flowerbed because I have a porch with a railing that it can climb up. Maybe when all the bushes the builder's landscaper put in die (2 died this winter, despite good care) I'll try a squash plant surrounded by flowers or something, LOL. There's no homeowners association here or anything, so why not squash in the front where I have room?
Nothing gets me more excited than a pic of a raised bed. Especially if it's empty and I can get in there with some seeds!
I have 11 or 12 4 x 8' raised beds that are falling apart on the sides. I have to get up there with brackets and screws and put them back together. So much to do at this time of year!
My garden is so disorganized so far that you would laugh if I posted pictures, but I will post a few anyway. Our priority this year was getting the house painted, new gutters and leaders, old, dying shrubbery torn out and hauled away, plus roof repairs after a very tough winter. I have lots of seedlings ready to go in, though!
Cher
Before he died, my grandfather had a garden was THE most disorganized garden I've ever seen. He had a friend who did the planting for him, and she was of the opinion that gardens grew better all mixed up, lmao. It was like everything was randomly planted on her whim, no rows or squares or anything. 4 garlic plants here, 2 over there, one along the edge, surrounded by multiplier onions that were all bunched up, but no onions on the other side, where there was the odd cucumber plant, maybe some poppies here and there...dill plants dotted the garden all over. LOLOL it was crazy. I still loved looking at it though.
Anyway, I can't wait to see your pictures!
About your grandfather's garden.
Instead of calling my garden "disorganized," maybe I should call it "free form." What your grandfather and his planter did is a form of natural pest control. I'm sure you know that, but they recommend it so the pests who attack certain types of plants don't get all the bounty. They might still get it, but they have to work a little harder.
I love imagining what a garden would look like with some poppies here, dill plants all over. The dill would be pretty, since it is so fern-like and airy.
I planted this bed back on 4/14 of this year. Here's what it looks like now:
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I planted lacinato kale, red speckle romaine, and mache'.
What actually grew was Russian kale that seeded from last year, romaine but not red speckle (!?), and no mache.
Here is what that same raised bed looked like a few years ago. As you can see, I got lacinato kale to grow back then.
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I'll have to try growing that - forgot all about kale. I'm not sure about the different types though - what's easiest to grow?
That's funny about the romaine. Do the speckles come later maybe? Or could be a seed mix up from the packaging company I guess. I heard mache was super hardy...I was going to try planting some once I harvest my lettuce and see if I can get it to survive into the fall but now I'm nervous if it's hard to get started. Have you grown it before? And can't believe how big everything is...
Thanks for the pictures. 