This sounds really good. Let me share what we decided to do this spring. We love growing our own vegetables,etc but we have lots of problems with wildlife here in central Kentucky. My husband made us four raised beds for our lawn. They are 4'wide by 8'long. He dumped real good dirt in first from our farm, then went and got buckets of cow manure from our barn that had rotted for two years. He raked this all down. Then we went to Wal Mart and got about 12 bags of the moister dirt(Miracle Grow). Then before we planted anything we put on ground covers which was nailed on the edges. In two of the beds, we put six tomato plants down the middle, twelve strawberry plants on each side of the tomato plants and around the edges I planted Marigolds. These are really good to have to keep insects away from the tomatoes. Instead of planting tomatoes in the other two beds we bought six blueberry bushes and put three to a bed down the middle, with strawberries and Marigolds. This fall we are planing tulips in all the beds around the edges. So far, we are having good luck. It has helped a lot having our beds in our yard. Our tomatoes are already in sturdy cages. We got them at WAl Mart also. HaHa! By the way, our beds are about knee high. I went to an Amish greenhouse near us. I bought eight of their Amish Roma Paste tomatoes. I have them in three gallon pots. I don't plan on caging them because they will go everywhere. The Amish lady said let them go, lay down pieces of heavy cardboard to keep them dry. She said they get huge. I can't wait to see how they do. She said let them grow over the pots on to the cardboard and keep the vines on the cardboard. I know this has been a long story but I love gardening and I enjoy sharing ideas, don't you? I think the world would be a better place if people would do this. Good luck!!!!!