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I never gardened either, Lori but started 2 yrs ago with 3 tomato plants. Never having grown anything before, I was tickled to death.
Last year we planted the tomatos, green beans, chinese pea pods, jalapenos and green bell peppers. The tomatos were so HUGE that they killed the rest of the garden, almost. I have never seen such big tomato plants. They were Romas.
This year, Mr HB got more serious and I bought the book "Square Foot Gardening". He built this little garden area way in the backyard, about 12x8 but it has an 18" walkway between. Each area is separated by 2x4s. So I use the walkway to the end which is 2x8 and has jalapenos and tomatos. On either side of the walkway, there are 3 - 3'x3' plots. So far, we've planted (and they are coming up) 1st box -radishes, carrots, beets, 2nd box - eggplant, chard, leeks, 3rd box - green beans, chinese pea pods and peas, 4th box- red, orange and green peppers, 5th box - head lettuce, romaine and black simpson.
I have 3 more boxes to plant and I'm thinking of another tomato or 2, more leeks and cukes. I'll decide when I go to the garden center next weekend. We did this little by little so it didn't wear us out. Whenever we were out, we'd pick up some Miracle Grow dirt and deliver it to the garden. Each box held 3 bags (I don't know how much it weighed) of dirt so we hauled 27 bags over a couple of weeks.
We bought the tomato, jalapeno, all the peppers, the romaine and head lettuce plants. The others are from seeds.
This garden certainly isn't big enough to feed us all summer but I really get great enjoyment from watching everything grow.
Jan
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I usually buy my plants from the same farmer every year. I just don't have the room inside to start things. Except, I planted okra, blue lake bean, radishe, and carrot seeds. I don't think it would work to buy those type plants
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