Hello i'm going to start a garden and would like some advice !?

i'm going to try to start a garden i want to start off simple and would like to know if there's anything i need to know about gardening . I'm going to start out with tomatoes, peppers , green peppers , maybe cabbage and or cucumbers . Is this too much for a beginner ? any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you !Hello i'm going to start a garden and would like some advice !?
My first question is , are you just going to till up a place in your yard? If so take the time to get all the grass out, that means breaking up the clotted dirt and throwing the grass away, you will have less grass/weeds if you do. Are you buying starter plants or staring with seeds? Since this is your 1st garden I would go with starter plants, cheap at walmart , Lowe's etc., Make your rows. I use sticks at each end and tie the string to keep rows straight. Follow directions on how far apart to plant. Tomatoes will do better if you put cages around them and tie them to the cage ( get the green stretchy tie stuff on a roll at Walmart). I would also add some organic matter to the soil to keep it loose, like landscape mix, organic humas and there is a new peat moss at Walmart it comes in bags. This will make weeding easier. Water, sunshine and good soil will give you a good garden. I use miracle grow fertilizer, does a good job. Hope this helps.Hello i'm going to start a garden and would like some advice !?
Tomatoes are a cinch to grow, as are peppers. Make sure you first start with plants, then go on to seeds if you want to some year. Cabbage is not really feasible, since one plant only grows one head. Cucumbers are OK. If you're new at it, start small, maybe a few tomatoes or other plants in containers, or a small area. If you want to have it really easy with your plants, lay down a layer of black plastic, weighting it down at the edges, and cut X's in it every 3 feet or so. Plant your plants in the X's, adding about a cup of Miracle-Gro (Miracle Gro for Tomatoes works like Viagra for tomatoes, peppers or eggplant). The black plastic will block out weeds, so gardening is much easier, plus it holds in heat and moisture. Good Luck!
tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers are easy to grow. cabbage is a cole crop, which means it thrives in cooler weather. a lot of people, myself included, do spring and fall crops of things like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, collards, and spinach. if you like greens (collards, spinach, lettuce), those are all super easy to grow and like cooler weather; in the dead of summer you can still grow lettuce, but you want it to have some shade from the afternoon sun. onions are easy, so are radishes. the best advice i could give a beginning gardener is don't start off too big...a small, well-tended garden will produce every bit as much as an over-sized, poorly tended garden.





also...google ';companion gardening';. it will teach you what you can plant next to each other, and what to avoid planting next to each other. it will also teach you about planting different flowers and herbs in with your vegetables to increase flavor and deter bugs. for example...planting basil in with your tomatoes gives them a superb flavor, and basil is incredibly easy to grow. marigolds and nasturtiums tend to ward off bugs and can be inter-planted with lots of different vegetables. it makes for a very pretty garden to have lots of flowers intermingled, and it serves a purpose as well. good luck, and have fun!
not knowing where you live makes it harder to answer your question. my advice is to start small, so you don't get overwhelmed and give up because of weeds etc. make sure your garden is close to a water source. i never had success with cabbage because of cabbage worms, for a first timer, i would suggest planting string beans, they are simple and dependable. the only drawback with them is they will only produce for a few weeks.tomatoes, peppers and cukes are good choices. try growing your cukes up a trellis of some kind. i grow mine on some wire.fencing. they do very well and don't take up much ground space.another thing that's easy is squash. very easy and bountiful. you will get into it the more you do it. save a little cash, and it is enjoyable and relaxing.
squire foot gardening is getting popular as a concept, my adaptation is the four gallon milk crate - take groups of four and they are good for tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, cucumbers
I would check with a local nursery -- many have classes or seminars that can help. Here's a link on vegetable gardens:





http://www.oldhouseweb.com/gardening/Det鈥?/a>
Try: ';Gardens for Beginners';


http://www.geocities.com/mastergardener2鈥?/a>


including the you tube videos.