I want to start a garden

I would start with plants already growing so you don't have to worry if the seeds will come up. Burpee is a well known produce seed company and they have some helpful videos on their website. Herbs are the easiest and can grown in a flower pot. Some things, like corn, need lots of rows for it to actually grow. Good luck. It's great getting your food from a garden.

Since this is your first, don't start too big or you may get overwhelmed. Pick a spot that gets a good 8 to 10 or so hours of sun a day. The ground should also be level and easy to reach with a hose. The ground will need to be tilled if it has never been done, and a few bags of topsoil mixed in with the dirt is also a good idea. This is what we did with my garden. Grow stuff you know for sure you will eat. (don't overplant on the zucchini unless you know you love it!) Tomatoes can be a challenge, so I use a topsy turvy tomato planter. Mine is the big one with three holes in one bag that comes with a stand. Sooooooo easy to take care of and you have tons of tomatoes. I used the garden to grow pumpkins, peppers, and different herbs. My mom put in tomato plants in my garden, and they were a pain to keep tied up to those stakes. Ugh. Only topsy turvy for me, mom. lol My mom's garden is massive, but she absolutely loves it and will spend hours and hours out there taking care of it. She really reaps the rewards for it, too because her yard is like a botanical garden full of vegetables and numerous shrubs, trees, and flowers. I am nowhere near that green of a thumb, so I wanted to start small. Btw, pumpkins and watermelons will take over your garden and your yard. They spread out everywhere!! But it is cool to have your own pumpkins come Halloween!

Also, Miracle Gro is a great product...I highly recommend it. And if you are not going to use weed killer, be prepared to be out there pulling weeds almost every day! Also, watering is best done in the early morning. This gives the plants time to absorb the water throughout the heat of the day and not have all that moisture on them through the night hours. But if you forget to water one morning, it wouldn't hurt to water them in the evening every now and then especially if it was a hot day, just not all the time. Hope this helped!! Have fun!! :flowerforyou:

Have you ever tried strawbale gardening? It's when you plant your stuff in hay bales. We've been doing it for the past several years and have had excellent results. Google "strawbale gardening" and it will give you the instructions to get started. we like it because there's no virtually no weeding. We have had real good luck with cucumbers, squash, peppers (green and jalapenos), cherry tomatoes and potatoes. Good luck!!

I'd like to try the straw-bale but finding actual square bales that don't require a $50,000 tractor and attachments to move around is kind of hard locally.
But I do have a bunch of surplus pallets from appliance selling companies, those should allow me to do the same thing without all the bending down to the ground to harvest stuff. Just need to get them filled, soon with the landscape cloth and stuffed with peat moss so they're ready for the plants!

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