My garden is also a jungle. But, it's my happy little jungle! Very little rhyme or reason to it. Every year, when I'm trying to cram it as full as I can get it, I just shake my head, and say, "Next year, I'll have an organized garden!"
While you may not have the space or time for a beautiful flower garden, you can pack lots of beauty into your vegetable garden. My garden is not complete without Calendula, nasturtium, and marigolds. You can also easily tuck lots of other flowers in here and there: try gladiola, dahlia...
Too funny about the kids. Lets hope those kids continue to be of the pleasant sort. The ones who look, and enjoy feeding the animals, instead of the nasty sort who like to chase animals with sticks and otherwise terrorize them. Sounds horrid, but there are lots of the latter kind out there...
This is a thrill! I've considered doing the same, just for the sake of doing it. There's a Trader Joe's at the other end of my state. I'll be following your thread, for sure. What day are you on? I assume that at this point, you're not turning any of them? And that you'll be candling, and...