I'm starting a garden and I don't know what to do?

Question

I just moved into a new apartment with a great huge backyard, and I want to start a garden, but I have no clue what to do. I plan to just grow some mellow cooking herbs, and some veggies, and I just don't know what to do, so all advice is welcome!

Answer 1

First of all if you don't want to dig up your landlords yard the best thing to do is make a box using 2x12x16 feet long and use pegs to keep it all straight..but you can make this as big as you want ..once you have the box made call your local garden center and have a load of garden blend soild delivered to you..it's black and very fluffy and allready has the proper mix of fertilizer mixed in for you..if you don't want to build a box then get a ground tiller and turn and till the groudn to the size you want your garden i still recomment getting the soild delivered..it's pretty cheap and you will have a beautifull garden in the end with great veggie's..

Answer 2

Check your area for a good garden center, and I don't mean a Home Depot or Walmart one either. Find one that is more of a momNpop or one that offers professional landscaping services. They're usually more than willing to help you get started, and often have pamphlets available for you to take home. Herbs are pretty easy, the trick with most of them is that they really prefer sunny locations in well drained, kinda crappy soil. I grow a lot of mine in a rock garden and they do better there than in my garden where the soil has been really amended. Veggies all have different requirements, some don't grow well when situated next to each other.. like don't grow peppers next to your tomatos because they compete for the same nutrients AND your tomatos will be hot. There's a good book called Carrots Love Tomatos that goes into a lot of detail on companion planting, Amazon has it. Stuff like squash and zucchini are EASY and they're really prolific, but they're also heavy feeders so they need a lot of compost worked into their patch of ground. Cucumbers can be tricky, not enough water or the minerals in the ground is off, they'll be nasty and bitter. Watermelon is also an easy one if you have a long, hot growing season. Black Diamond is fun to grow if you can find the seed. They'll go to 70-80 pounds under ideal circumstances but 40-50 pounds is more common. I grow Sugar Baby here, 8 pounders, 7-9 per vine, and it won't take over the whole yard like some of the bigger ones will. If you like canteloupe, look around for Israeli seed. They're butt ugly things, huge and white fleshed, but OMG you've never tasted a sweeter canteloupe!

It's addictive! One of my friends grows tomatos and peppers in her back yard, and takes it to the farmer's markets. She made about $4000 last year off her little hobby.

Answer 3

First, find out what grows best in your climate. make sure you start by putting in a good filler soil. you could space things so they look decorative too. perhaps draw an outline on a piece of paper of what you would like it to look like. also, i always go and ask the nursery where you buy plants for advise they are excellent source of free into

Answer 4

You need to dig beds first of all. Dig up the soil and add fertilizer and top soil. Buy your plants at a nursery at the best time to plant in your area. It is when all danger of frost is past. Space your plants and put mulch around them to keep out weeds. Water them so they don't dry out.

Answer 5

prepare soil by tilling it with a shovel or rototiller make rolls or mounds depending on what your planting. get seeds or plants plants will do better for beginner follow directions with plants or seeds and groww hergs or some veggies. its great

Answer 6

That's nice. Look at this website. See if it helps you.

Answer 7

you have a computer!! google "beginning gardener" etc