Originally Posted by southpawboston

I have a tiny urban lot in a town next to Boston, so my entire back yard totals about 700 sq ft. This year we're vegetable gardening for the first time, replacing most of the small section of grass we had left after building out a perennial garden-- we're trying to make the most of a small space and slowly replacing every blade of grass. Last fall I built two cedar beds with A-frame supported trellises out of dimensional cedar boards (not a purchased kit), These shots were taken two weeks ago and things have come up a lot since then! In the first bed are radishes, carrots, chives, sweet peppers, basil, arugula, and snow and snap peas (along the trellis). In the second bed are beets, bush beans, cucumbers (along the trellis), baby lettuces, kale and spinach. We've got several varieties of tomatoes as well as dill, fennel, oregano and thyme growing separately in pots or growing bags. Everything seems to be growing really well (knock on wood) except the beets, which are all shriveling up after growing about 6" tall.