I love my gardens have always had a vegie patch till I built my big shed/workshop over it over 32 years ago, 1/2 my back yard is now my shed, but the last 5 years now I have put garden bed where ever I can fit them, my whole small front yard has garden beds both side of it , up the back it all food growing from vegies to herbs and fruit trees, down the front its roses, vines on the front patio and even one or two fruit trees, any spare room and I will did it up and plant something and the good thing less mowing when the grass is growing, I just dug up two garden beds the other day being winter now planted peas, I put a lot of efforts to change my ground from clay to good rich soil and the amount of earth worms I dug up and gave them a good feed of cow and chook poo and sugar cane multch, can only get better, fresh organic food straight out of the garden can't beat it.
Ashley