Raised beds! You can also make them pretty cheaply with plain planks and those corner blocks they sell at Home Depot now. They don't last forever if you buy cheaper wood, but it's perfectly fine; I've had some basic pine ones going for almost three years now and once they break down I'll just chip them or something and start again. Bonus is you can get HD to cut them down to whatever size you want to start with.

I was going to start my spring garden officially yesterday after having drilled holes in my half-wine-barrels that I acquired and some shopping for dirt over the weekend/monday and then it just started pouring unannounced all day. :P And today I'm bogged down with work! Tomorrow hopefully will be the day to get dirty over here.