I hurt...

At our new house, we have inherited a neglected vegetable garden. It's roughly 16' x 40', and appears that it hasn't been used in a year or so.

You'll note that there is a good 3' strip of grass along the fence that requires one to push the mower over the garden to reach it. This is because the phone line is buried under that section, and imagine it is risky to rototill that section. Anyhoo, Mrs. tsandhol and I aren't exactly big vegetable gardeners anyway, so we decided to replace the vegetable garden with some raised beds and ornamental plantings. 5 cubic yards of mulch, 144 feet of 2x6 cedar, 16' of aluminum rods, 450' of landscaping fabric, and loads of topsoil and compost later (plus plants), and we have a workable garden for now.

The raised beds are placed in a way that will allow us to either add three more of them if we decide we like doing vegetable gardening, or just have a larger ornamental garden with a path.

Now if I could just get a hold of some muscle relaxers...