I grow tomatoes on my deck in containers that are no more than a foot to foot and a half deep. IMO, that soil depth will be perfectly fine for what you’re planting to grow, and the fabric is water permeable so there shouldn’t be any problems with drainage.
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Thanks all! I’m already itching to think about spring.
Because it’s around the pool I would want to keep some aesthetic but I thought herbs and other not too wieldy plants would not look too bad.
I’d love to have a raised bed garden outside of the fence - there just is SOO many deer I don’t know that they or other critters (we are on a river so I’ve seen groundhogs and such in the yard) would tackle that netting!
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I’ve had luck with deer, but if you’ve got groundhogs, forget about it…
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I concur about the groundhogs. I use 3-foot high chicken wire to keep groundhogs out of my garden; but they will exploit any gap between the fence and ground to get into the garden, so I have to use closely spaced stakes to hold down the chicken wire.
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This was the pic that gave me the idea of doing the small beds on the stone. I think I could replicate easier with the already formed beds over brick. But I like it! Also, our stone is bigger than this smaller “gravel”.
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We actually spread crushed rock around our raised beds to prevent slugs from getting Into them! Slugs hate crawling on sharp, dry surfaces.
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Thought you might like to read this:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00303-5/fulltext
Cliff Notes: gardening is good for one’s wellbeing. 
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