How to tear up a garden and plant a new one?

Question

I know absolutely nothing about gardening, I just moved to a new house and am interested in trying to grow a few vegetables. There are some flower beds in my yard and I have noticed some of those tags lying in teh soil showing what has been planted by the people before me. Is it possible to plant vegetables there? If so, do i just go out and plant them or do I have to get the stuff that the people before me planted out? And how would I get all that out of the garden? I am very confused about what to do and could not find any help on the interent about getting rid of one garden and starting new. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

So easy. For veggies, make sure the garden gets a lot of mid day and afternoon sun.

Dig up the old plants. Till the ground if you can by shovel or tiller. Turn it over and over, pull out all old roots and grass and anything that is not soil.

Now mix in a general fertalizer that is good for gardening. No reason to get expensive, anything. The 'TONE' products are good, like Root Tone and Plant Tone...just anything safe for VEGGIES.

Now, plant the plants. I highly recomment NOT getting seeds, but the litte plants they have at walmart. Plant tomatoes about 3 feet apart, rows the same, 3 feet apart. Plant vining plants where you don't have to worry about mowing...cukes, etc. Zuchinni, tomatoes, peppers of any kind, cukes, all super easy to grow. Just keep them watered. If you see a problem, ask here.

Skip corn for now, it can be a real mess with pests.

DO believe the directions, for example that little zuchinni plant really WILL get to 3 to 5 feet across!

Good luck and happy gardening!

Answer 2

If you realy ant a beautiful garden I would suggest you buy a tiller or rent one.
Till that ground up and remove all the weeds of grass.. This will take several days depedning on how big of a garden you want.

After removing all the grass and weeds. Go buy some potting soil, nutrients and fertalizer. Till that up all together in the garden.

Buy as many bags of potting sopil you need depending on the square footage of your garden so that you have plenty.

When your done. it should look very dark and fluffy.

Then water it down and saturate it for two days.
Let it dry and get a metal rake and rake it all loose.

Then plant whatever you want to grow from vegetables to flowers and they will grow like a weed in that fresh dirt with nutrients and alrready processed so you plants will not burn from the fertalizer.

I use nitrate fertalizer and chicken poop in my garden and I grow Watermellons, Cantelopes, Corn, Tomatoes, and Squash like you wouldn't believe.

My Garden is 20 ft by 20 ft

I bury all my fish guts in there too from fishing.
My Garden is so processed that you can plant virtually anything in there and it grows.
My wife wanted to plant a Sunflower in my garden and that Sunflower grew 11 ft tall and 18 inches wide. We had to use a pole to keep it from drooping. The Sunflower was huge. She made the Newspaper and The Garden Fairy on line posted her pic of it.
So happy Gardening and always remember you only get out what you put in to it.\So shower your garden with love and food and it will grow you a many times over anything you want.

Answer 3

forget the tiller!! just go out and grab the flowers by the base of the stem, where they meet the ground and pull!! they should come up fairly easy more so if they have just been planted this year.

then as long as you have what looks like good rich air-rated soil I would just follow the directions on your seed packets, or get some advice on the specific plants you buy from a nursery

if your soil looks cruddy (lighter in color or alot of clay) I would say you will probably need to till or turn in with a shovel, some compost

Answer 4

get a rear tine tiller (Not Front Tine) till the area you want to use for your garden, till all existing vegetation under it will decompose and add nutrients to the soil, have your soil tested for Ph and Alkalinity ETC then find you a chart with planting tables so you know what to plant when also take into consideration your region and weather patterns

Answer 5

Rent or buy a roto-tiller and do some re-consructing around your garden. This machine will alow you to mes sup your garden and start over clean.
then you can grow a new garden

you can usually find these at wal-mart or home-depot

Answer 6

Rent a roto-tiller and turn up the area. Remove all the roots and weeds. You should now be able to plant what you desire. You can add amendments and fertilizers after you get new growth.

Answer 7

Do you own a tiller? I don't know how much they cost, but you might need to till up the land, before planting.

Remove the old flowers, veggies, etc. Till the land. Then plant your own seeds.

Cheers