So, it’s been a perpetual struggle in my garden between my theoretical desire to grow vegetables, and my very real love for flowers. The battle is primarily over sun — everywhere with full sun, I tend to give over to flowers, and then my poor tomatoes unhappily struggle in part-sun. I do get some veggies this way, but they’ve been rather starved of resources.
So now that we’re firmly out of the ‘little kids kicking a soccer ball around in the backyard’ stage, AND we’ve also given away our pandemic pool, we’re taken the sunny patch of grass in the back, and are going to see what happens if we grow some veggies there.
Kevin and I went to Home Depot yesterday and picked up three of these modular 4’x4′ kits ($79 each) — one of them is double-stacked, to get tomatoes the depth they want, and the other is attached to it. One could, in theory, create a vast network of such things. Let’s start with this and see. It took me about 30-45 minutes to put these together, no tools required. There are little woods caps to screw on the end posts that I haven’t added yet.
I had a little veggie garden soil I’d bought already, and a big pile of leaf mulch, so the plan was to start with the leaf mulch to fill in some, and then soil on top. I’m not entirely sure it’s a great plan, but that’s what we did, so. We’ll see what happens. 
Tomorrow, I get more soil, and then plant the tomatoes, cucumbers, and basil I bought from the Tomato Lady, and sometime in the next week or two, I set up the drip watering system with timers, because I am hopeless at keeping veggie gardens sufficiently watered otherwise, and then off we go!