When I decided that I wanted to get serious about growing my own herbs, I was thinking I'd get a large planter to put on the front porch. I mentioned it to my neighbor and asked her opinion since she has a phenomenal garden. She asked why I wasn't going to use the long bed in my front yard where our shrubs had once been. I forget what killed them off, but we'd had to remove them a while ago and grass had taken over it. It's a large bed (3' x 33'), faces south and is in full sun. So it was perfect. She helped me plan it out and get started. I tried putting down cardboard to kill off the grass, but I had such a hard time cutting holes in it to plant that I pulled it up and just resigned myself to a lot of weeding. It was a lot of weeding, but it was so worth it! By the end of that year I was determined to add a couple of raised beds in the back yard for a square foot garden and last spring we did the Great Garden Expansion. We're on a good sized lot (0.7 acres) and the only trees are the line of evergreens along the north property line, so most of the back yard is full sun. I couldn't wait to start last spring and had so much fun with it. This spring I had even more fun with the Even Greater Garden Expansion. I added a permanent space for my potato grow bags and 3 in ground beds. All of my beds are 4' x 8', so I have tons of planting space. It has been a bunch of work, but I get so much fulfillment out of my garden.

@Robin Lewis beautiful! I can’t wait to see pictures.

Welcome all!

@Julie Vigil cool! I think the small size would drive me nuts though.

@Phillip Greenwood yeah. I had to restart my tomatoes.

@Cristal Vancarson but they're so good for the garden!