five-one - have you heard of Square Foot Gardening? It might be doable in your small space...even with gophers!

This is our 'square foot garden' field. I spaced these boxes out considerably more than they needed to be...I just wasn't sure of the trellis of one shading another too much. We also have a more traditional row gardening plot where we have a little bit of corn and three types of potatoes planted. We will be expanding both areas next year, but we were very late getting started this summer as we didn't have the house until June.



(this photo is over a month old - there's way more growing there now!)


Oh, and if you really want to see and read more...this is the blog I've been keeping to have some type of informal record of this experience.
http://simplemetamorphosis.blogspot.com/