Wife loves gardening and I enjoy it most of the time. Mix of each philosophy. Tubs are for over flow… Planting potatoes today in MT. Almost done with raised bed prep. Garlic is coming in nicely our 3rd year doing it. Works well to burn up chicken manure/bedding, but we still buy a good bit of compost and I grab a few buckets of word castings from buddy farmers a year.
Raised beds are 4x12 rough cut pine so full dimension lumber from a mill 20 miles a way