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Hello its been a long time since I posted anything, mainly due to the fact that this year has been a horrible year, growing wise. Thanks to Daves Garden I became hooked on vegetable gardening, and I have learned a lot. I decided to make a small vegetable garden in the back of my townhouse, since my space is limited it had to be a little one. Well I planted some beautiful tomato, cucumber, pepper, watermelon plants, I was able to raise them from seed thanks to my grow lights (last years Christmas gift). Once they were big enough I planted them outside in my new area ( which by the way I fenced so my dogs and other animals could not get in it) I thought I was all set, and that I was going to have so much produce that I would even have to give some away to friends,neighbors etc... like so many of my fellow gardeners here in DG. Boy was I wrong, I was only able to consume 4 big tomatoes from my bigger plants and not even a dozen of my little maters, the peppers did terrible and the watermelon only produced 2 melons, after all the $ and time spent I was almost going to give it up, thinking that I was just not good at it and that my thumb was definetely not green but brown, very brown. Anywho, after researching for months the only thing that I can think went wrong is the fact that my backyard does not get enough sun or perhaps not enough hours of sun. Since I live in a townhouse community I am kind of hesitant of planting anything up front where all the sun goes due to the fact that anybody could steal my precious veggies. Now my question is, I was thinking of putting a fence, a nice one that separates my property from the others , that way making it harder for anybody to steal veggies if I am to plant any up front. Also I was thinking about making some raised beds that way it would look nicer and neighbors don't complain. I don't want to spend a lot of money on a raise bed system, I have checked online and some of them go for $200 to $600 so my question is, Is there a way of making an inexensibe raise bed system? Also what are your imputs on raise beds, do they work good?
Any imput would be greatly appreciated.
Carmen
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