The vegetable forum might give you better advice since many members use raised beds. The main thing to remember is that the beds should be no wider than you can easily reach to the middle of. Also, while you may prefer raised beds for a variety of reasons, they are a lot of work to make, and many gardeners start with dreadful soil that they build up through lasagna gardening techniques and/or cover crops.

Concrete peaces work well and they are free. Look on craigslist or free cycle.it is expensive to get of busted up concrete so you would be doing them a favor. My neighbor has a raised bed made out of old concrete so I will take a pick next time I remeber

Check out the Stained Glass and Mosaic forum at That Home Site--I'll bet they'd know exactly how you could acomplish your idea.

Aloha Randyg! Yep they sell Blueberries over here on Kauai too, down at Walmart and KMart. They get paid WELL for them of course (I'd personally rather grow them from seed to save the cash!) at about $25.00-$30.00 each for a 1-2' tall rooted plant (consisting of a single vertical stem, lol) I can't recall the exact species/cultivar though! I assume it's a variation/cultivar that doesn't require the extremely cold conditions, or at least requires these conditions for less time, than 'traditional' Blueberries. As for your planting box questions Dashinhi, not to get too far off-topic, lol. There are plenty of veggies and herbs available for sale just about anywhere that can do well in close quarters growing conditions (Baby back Choi is a great example, 'Toy-Choi' reaches about 5" tall when it's ready, but they're stubby little plants that supply plenty of foliage to eat) You can get alot of food out of just a small plot of land (even down to a square foot!) ...it's almost all in how ya manage the space that you've got! It's the warmer season now, so it's not the absolute best time to grow or plant any lettuce, but you CAN do it nonetheless. Again it depends on where you're garden is and how much sun it gets, but a shade is easy enough to stick up over any sensitive areas (or plant something tall on the north side before you plant the sensitive plants to give them some shade throughout the time which the sun would be beating down on them) You'll have to pick it (lettuce/ broccoli, and I believe cabbage as well) sooner than normal, as it will go to flower/seed quicker in this warmer weather than it would at milder times of the year. If you're planning on planting a selection of Lettuce varieties, I suggest doing the following; Buy a 'bulk' load of each variety you'd like to plant, Home Depot. Walmart. Etc. usually sell a small bag (in ounces) of different lettuce varieties. Mix these seeds 1/1/1 (or however many varieties you have) with an equal part sand, and spread this mix evenly on the topsoil. You can either pull the whole plant(s) when they're ready to harvest, or cut the tops from the stems, leaving enough that new leaves will grow back (supplying a continual supply, for some time, of fresh lettuce)This way you can grow an assortment of different lettuce in one area, and it conserves space quite a bit as well, salad intercropping =D If you'd like to do some carrots and radishes, these can be planted in the same manner which the lettuce was, just mix the seeds and disperse evenly over an area (however large) The Radishes should germinate first, and be ready to harvest first, and about the time that you harvest your radishes, the carrots should be needing more room (freed up by the removal of the radishes). There are hundreds of methods like this regarding intercropping, I've read up on it and taken a class or two, and found that you can grow enough food to eat fresh, freeze, can, and/or store, for one person for one year, in an area about 2x2 in one growing season! Depending on how big the slug problem is, how big the garden is, etc. You can take some ground up Chili peppers and spread them or the powder in around the base of the plants. Another way if you have a wall they'd have to climb up to get into the garden (careful if you have dogs or cats though) would be to take some Vaseline and mix a good amount of Chili pepper powder in with that, enough that it's tinted red. Just take this mixture and make a perimeter on the outside of the wall to the garden area, and it'll hold up for a while before the rain washes it down. Just be careful to put it in a place on the wall which won't be getting touched very often, can obviously be a nasty surprise if ya get it in your eyes or something. This is what I use on my potted herbs and veggies, seems to work pretty well. This combined with killing every slug or snail I see, and having plenty of the toads and centipedes around, has my yard almost completely clear of those pests =] I think I may still have some of the pages from my course around here somewhere, if you want to email me I can scan them in and shoot them over to you, they give some good examples of layouts and whatnot that helped me out a bit =] Take it light and talk with ya all later on, all the best! Dave Kauai