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I suppose if it smells enough it might, though my dogs have shown zero interest in the bins and I've not seen coon or coyote tracks nearby.

If you're worried about critters getting into a standing compost bin you can secure hardware cloth around the bottom and base, which will let worms in and excess water out, but exclude mice/rats from chewing their way in. A little hard to see, but there's hardware cloth sticking up around the...

If stuff doesn't grow well, you can always add fertilizer in as needed as you go along.

Bagged commercial soil mix should be good as-is, though most of them have instructions on the back to advise if that's the case or not. Since you're using a mix of stuff, it should work out well for this year since you'll have some new soil mix (where nutrients haven't been used up) as well as...

x2. I started with bagged commercial compost when I first set up raised beds, since I started the garden before I had compost bins (plus I do the slo-mo method of composting, so I give it a year before harvesting). Some plants are heavier feeders (tomatoes are one) so having some fertilizer...

A cage would be better. You might be able to get away with one of the typical budget ones you see at any garden center, and see how that does. I have Texas tomato cages (tomatocage.com) right now that are permanently "borrowed" from my MIL, they're much sturdier but pretty expensive. But I...

Makes sense... I so far haven't found a variety of bok choy that I'm satisfied with, but trying another variety this spring. For lettuce, I get a mixed bag of lettuce seeds, which includes romaine types, butterheads, oak leafs, etc. Some are slower to bolt, others faster to mature, so I like...

I've found bok choy to be far more bolt happy than lettuce, so I've only tried growing bok choy in early spring. Lettuce starts bolting maybe around 80F.

Might depend on the lettuce. I haven't had issues growing lettuce through the summer but I have cooler summers so the plants don't just bolt. x2 on strawberries, some varieties don't produce at all in year 1. And yes bush green beans need sun... trying to think of what would do well in a...

A little shade is ok (and lettuce may prefer it on hot summer days) but I experimented with that last year and having lettuce behind the tomatoes didn't work for me - not enough sunlight made it through and the few plants that grew were very stunted. So there's going to be some trial and error...

So I have one 4x4 bed (for comparison) and realistically you can fit 1 tomato in there, unless you're getting super compact "mini" plants. I've tried more than one and basically one will take over and starve out the rest. So I'd do 1 tomato in 1/4 of the bed. Peppers in another 1/3rd, and...