Grow up. Trellises can double your growing room. Good soil, regular watering, a few hours of daily sun and you will soon be picking food. If you get yellow leaves, its too much water, or not enough sun. One year, I grew my entire crop in pots on our balcony (which surrounded our house). I still plant 2 dozen herbs in pots.

I have lots of land, but I get a year's worth of produce for a family of four out of five 8-foot x 2-foot x 3-foot deep boxes and one 4-foot deep tomato box.

To maximize my space, I make trellises, stick them in the boxes, and grow everything up them. I have to use a ladder to harvest the tops, but its easier than picking off the ground - and I don't lose as much to wildlife (and wayward cattle).

Those HOA's can be awful. About 15 years after we built our house, a developer overlaid a frigging gated community of rural ranchettes on top of us. One of the first things that stupid HOA did was prohibit clotheslines. When I asked the board where was I supposed to sun bleach my white linens, none of them had ever heard of such a thing. Then they chose some house colours and we were told our house needed to be painted on of those colours.

Grow, Dark Garden, grow. :)