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In the townhouse I live now we have a tiny back yard, maybe 16 x 12 ft, a yardlet if you will.  A few years back I put up planter boxes to grow fresh herbs and have been doing so since with good success.  Now the soil here isn’t much for growing (sandy loam) so to get much yield raised beds are the way to go.  Without much room I had to squeeze a  raised bed into my yardlet.  There are hundreds of plans online for making raised beds but all you really need is to build a box out of durable material.  I used landscaping timbers and the existing fence to make my bed.  This couldn’t have been easier and now I’m growing all sorts of veggies and having some good success.  Show me your small space and what you did to improve it.  Now some before and afters;



                    



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