Pick the spot you want to have your garden. Then you will need to take grass off if there is any. You will then need to get a rotatiller and break up the ground with it. Plant whatever you want to eat. Tomatoes are easy to grow as well as green beans and zuchanni.
Start by picking your flowers, do you want flowers that you have to replant every year? do you want flowers that will come back?
Do you want bushes and shrubs, or do you want flowers, or vines? Do you want veggies and fruits?
What is important to you?
When you choose your flowers, look for information on how far apart to plant them. Also take in consideration the average height of the plant, plant taller plants in back.
when planting flowers, combine 3 of the same color, together, to prevent a skittles look.
dont plant plants that take over, vining plants, or plants that seed themselves, and spread fast. This will smother or strangle your other plants….
Consider where to plant them, Make sure you plant all your sun loving plants in the sunny area, and share plants in the sun…
Keep vine plants away from siding, and foundation, unless you plan on maintaining them every year, they may grow under the sidding or break your foundation….
Dont forget, it’s important to pick out matching or complimentry boders, bright borders take the attention away from the garden.
Garden onanments are nice, but dont over do it, Dont put too many garden decorations, or you will clutter it. a bird bath is nice, if you can compliment it with some flowers, or vines.
Too many decorative stakes over do a garden. Use plain stakes, and vine supports….the flowers will decorate it approprorately.
Draw out a nice layout of how you would like it to look, color scemes, dimensions, Do you want levels, or everythign at one level, Do you want gardens to wrap around trees? Do you want plant holders? Bonsai stands? Stone paths? Do you want basic easy to maintaine gardens??? whats important to you?
If you go to Home depot, they have Garden clinics to get you started, Other warehouses have the same.
Hi Josh,
I highly suggest you start off small. You didn’t say where you lived, so it will be difficult to help you much. I suggest a 4′ x 8′ area as a starter. Whether you dig the ground, or make a raised bed. It will give you a easy hands on start. Then next year you can enlarge.
In a 4 x 8 space, you can plant tomatoes, onions, and other easy to grow plants. Lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli like cool weather better. That’s why I need to know where you live.
I’ll check back later to see if you tell us. Hey don’t give exactly where you live, just say middle Tennessee, Central California, Nevada, etc.
Take nothing else from this. Start with either a phone call to your local County Extension Agent or take soil samples to them. NOTHING grows without the soil being right. The phone # should be in the book or at you State University.
These are people that are great and dedicated to helping you. There is always a minimal cost of the soil analysis, however, they will come and make the proper recs. for your turf, trees, and shrubs. They also offer no or really low cost programs in gardening and other fields of interest to you.
Nothing, I mean nothing, grows unless the soil/home is right. A weed is a grass, a shrub, a flower, even a tree, if it is in the wrong place. Your Extension Agent will tell you specifically what is right or wrong. Pay the minimum for the soil test. Within a few months you will have not only the right soil, a friend (Agent), but a long time source of info from the State and the Agent..
Good Luck. Jerry G.
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Pick the spot you want to have your garden. Then you will need to take grass off if there is any. You will then need to get a rotatiller and break up the ground with it. Plant whatever you want to eat. Tomatoes are easy to grow as well as green beans and zuchanni.
Start by picking your flowers, do you want flowers that you have to replant every year? do you want flowers that will come back?
Do you want bushes and shrubs, or do you want flowers, or vines? Do you want veggies and fruits?
What is important to you?
When you choose your flowers, look for information on how far apart to plant them. Also take in consideration the average height of the plant, plant taller plants in back.
when planting flowers, combine 3 of the same color, together, to prevent a skittles look.
dont plant plants that take over, vining plants, or plants that seed themselves, and spread fast. This will smother or strangle your other plants….
Consider where to plant them, Make sure you plant all your sun loving plants in the sunny area, and share plants in the sun…
Keep vine plants away from siding, and foundation, unless you plan on maintaining them every year, they may grow under the sidding or break your foundation….
Dont forget, it’s important to pick out matching or complimentry boders, bright borders take the attention away from the garden.
Garden onanments are nice, but dont over do it, Dont put too many garden decorations, or you will clutter it. a bird bath is nice, if you can compliment it with some flowers, or vines.
Too many decorative stakes over do a garden. Use plain stakes, and vine supports….the flowers will decorate it approprorately.
Draw out a nice layout of how you would like it to look, color scemes, dimensions, Do you want levels, or everythign at one level, Do you want gardens to wrap around trees? Do you want plant holders? Bonsai stands? Stone paths? Do you want basic easy to maintaine gardens??? whats important to you?
If you go to Home depot, they have Garden clinics to get you started, Other warehouses have the same.
Hi Josh,
I highly suggest you start off small. You didn’t say where you lived, so it will be difficult to help you much. I suggest a 4′ x 8′ area as a starter. Whether you dig the ground, or make a raised bed. It will give you a easy hands on start. Then next year you can enlarge.
In a 4 x 8 space, you can plant tomatoes, onions, and other easy to grow plants. Lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli like cool weather better. That’s why I need to know where you live.
I’ll check back later to see if you tell us. Hey don’t give exactly where you live, just say middle Tennessee, Central California, Nevada, etc.
Take nothing else from this. Start with either a phone call to your local County Extension Agent or take soil samples to them. NOTHING grows without the soil being right. The phone # should be in the book or at you State University.
These are people that are great and dedicated to helping you. There is always a minimal cost of the soil analysis, however, they will come and make the proper recs. for your turf, trees, and shrubs. They also offer no or really low cost programs in gardening and other fields of interest to you.
Nothing, I mean nothing, grows unless the soil/home is right. A weed is a grass, a shrub, a flower, even a tree, if it is in the wrong place. Your Extension Agent will tell you specifically what is right or wrong. Pay the minimum for the soil test. Within a few months you will have not only the right soil, a friend (Agent), but a long time source of info from the State and the Agent..
Good Luck. Jerry G.