So here is my garden (with the exception of some baby plants on the porch and in the kitchen and some seeds that are still germinating)...
About half of these plants started on our back patio until a squirrel, rabbit, or some other critter started eating one of our Lima bean plants and killed it. So I bought some chicken wire and metal posts to cage in all the plants so this wouldn't happen again. Although it doesn't look like it, there is a way to get in and out of the garden on the back corner.
you can see the growth of that specific plant.