what do you need to do to start a garden and where

Alright, so here looking to start a garden. Well, what do you need to do? Where do you start without? Just getting our garden all set up this year? .

I thought I would kind of walk through some of the steps if you're just getting into gardening or it's been a long time since we had a garden you want to get started whether your country setting a Suburban setting an apartment where ever you are invited to just learn to start ,and there's so many ways to start Garden whether you have smaller spaces container gardening raised bed gardening or traditional gardening and I have a combination.

 It was all here. So where do you start? So the first thing you need to figure out when you're looking to start a new Garden is where are you going to put it you need to pay attention to your yard of especially pay attention to where you get the most amount of sunlight generally most of your crops that you're going to drill .

are going to do well in full sun some crops like leafy greens and other things are going to do okay in part shade also, but generally everything will be pretty good in full sun with very few exceptions. 

So there are actually a few different apps that you can get for Android or iPhone. That you can use to track the Sun Path during different times of the year. So even if you're planning your garden in the winter time, you can use the app to set it to let's say July and figure out exactly where the path of Sun is going to be in your yard. 

We want to use that to figure out where you're going to get the best of on a sole once you have a place picked out in your yard and you're ready to get started. You need to figure out what you're going to grow now generally people especially new gardeners you want to go to the seed store and you look at all these great themes.

On the rack or whatever at Home Depot or Ace Hardware or whatever it is that you go and you're going to want to just pick on a whole bunch of stuff. That looks good. 

Oh that was good. I want to try that with right at there's nothing wrong with trying new things. 

But I would encourage you to stay focused on things that unique things that you eat the most and also things that you can preserve. So pay attention to what your family is using those stuff that you guys have salads every day. You want to roll out of salad greens and you guys eat a lot of tomato or tomato products. You want to grow a lot of tomatoes. And you can't always great to try and experiment new things. But you also just want to make sure the core of what you're growing is things that you're going to use. 

There's nothing worse than plant a garden weeding it taken care of it all summer long and then not really wanting to eat half the stuff he grew when it comes August or September. So once you have some things picked out, it's time to look at Seas. Now. 

The best thing to do is buy your seat earlier in the year. So even during the wintertime less, especially if you're in the northern climates, you can get better deals on he's usually

And I would recommend getting stuff online a little bit early. If you can I'll put a link in the description to where I get almost all of my seeds for our homes our kitchen Garden here. 

And that's a my Gardener. got just about everything that you can that you can want their. So once you have your see this time to figure out which things you need to start inside it which thing is that you can direct sow in the ground. 
Now, this is really the varies on where you live here in the northern climates where we're going to want to start some things inside any of your hot weather crops peppers tomatoes melons of any of the things that on the seed packet it says the Harvest is longer than 90 days. 

You want to make sure that you get those things started inside. if you're interested and you want to make sure that you start those things early in the northern climates. 

If you don't start your tomatoes and peppers early, you're probably not going to get a very good harvest after the warmer climates down south. You don't have to worry too much about that. You can probably start a lot of your seeds, right? In the ground in March or April so now it's time to prepare your garden space or so many different ways to do this. 

You need to make a decision. Are you going to do raised bed gardens or you going to do a traditional guard now, there's lots of benefits to both traditional gardening is easy to get started. 

You can tell up a small spot of land with a shovel rake a little whatever you want to do. If you have a hint of more price killer you can you can start to apply a patch of weigh-in and you can start gardening you can amend the soil a little bit maybe with some compost.

Other things where you're playing things and you're ready to go raised regarding has a lot of great benefits, but you do have to purchase one. 

Until the race that defy the race better than you have to fill them with soil even though they are a great way to go. If you're just getting started don't be discourage and pumping a bunch of money in your garden. It's easy to start with traditional gardening. You've got the extra money and time and you want to get those rays that set up there a little bit better long-term investment and their little easier as far as weeding and caring for the garden throughout the year. Now, we talk about soil events. 

What kind of so Tony can you just throw stuff right in the ground? We need to do anything with the soil. I would definitely encourage you to do so. Some type of amendment to your soil. What are you going to do a soil mix in a race that or just Tricia regarding with killing in so many wars and other organic matters. 

You don't need to give you a scientific as having a soil test at all that kind of stuff. But generally the more organic matter you have the better if you have a local farming you can get a little pickup truck load of compost or something like that and mix it with your soil. That would be great way to start if you want a better soil mix. It includes sand peat moss and manure compost.

If you want to just go small and it'll be real basic go to your Home Depot or Lowe's or whatever. Your home improvement store is Ace Hardware and pick up a bag of place a in a bag of peat moss and two bags of manure compost mix it together and you're going to have a great soil mix. 

So that's just a really easy kind of bag way to go and you can use that to amend the soil or even filler a time when we talk about gardening and we talk about soil of its we can't talk about that without talking about compost if you haven't already started a compost pile. 

Start border right now. It's one of the easiest and cheapest way is to get yourself some really good soil every single year for your garden kitchen scraps yard, waste tree clippings leanings, whatever you have around you can use that in a very simple composting method without any fancy pens or barrels or anything like that take a section in your courtyard the corner of your yard somewhere and make a pile. 

That's all you need to do makeup. I'll turn it once or twice a year with a pitchfork in trouble and you've got yourself some good compost in one year's time. I'm nothing fancy about it very easy to get started and it doesn't require any special bins or plans or anything like that. 

If you've already started Council style great get out your compost last year mix it in with your soil whether it's locally right around each plant or Towing it into your whole traditional garden section or whether mixing it would raise that that fresh compost is a great way to get nutrients to your plants. All right, so you're ready to get started planting. 

There's lots of different ways to play at various kinds of vegetables. I'm not going to go through How to play it everything generally the best thing to do is to look at the back of your seed packet that your body from Gardner. 

There's a very good instructions detailed description on what they see they're going to go for you what they're used for with the vegetables used for and how to plant them follow that and you'll be in good shape one thing you want to pay attention to when you're planting is your sunlight if you're going to grow a bunch of very tall things like Corridor sunflowers or other fall vegetables or trellising things. 

You don't want to have that on the south side of your garden where it's To be shading the rest of your crops. So the north side of all your garden patches. 

where you're going to want to have all of your tallest stuff the shortest thing that should go on the South Side that's going to make sure that as the sun is tracing across the sky that you don't get anything shaded in your garden for longer than just to maybe a half an hour or so the shape of the Shadow will move through your garden very quickly and will be very short and then you will have trouble with things not getting sunlight caring for your garden is extremely important.

Once you have things in the ground, you're not done the biggest mistake that gardeners make especially first your gardeners is letting weeks and get away from you. You have to stay out there as soon as you've planted not more than one week. 

She go by before you get back out in your garden and make sure you pick all the weeds are going to start coming up especially if you're using a fresh yard or manure compost you're going to have lots a little grass seeds and things like that. 

They're gonna be coming up get on that stuff right away and you won't have trouble with Leaves your plants are going to grow better. 

You're going to feel a lot better about what you've done. So thing you can do to control weeds is what I've done our whole garden here and use wood chips, which apps are free resource in our area. 

Anyway, almost every city that I've been to has some type of collection point for all of their tree ways. They going trees throughout the year, if piles of the stuff you can go take it for free if your city doesn't have that check your neighboring cities. You probably will find something somewhere can't this this wood chip mulch is an excellent way to keep

We cover our entire garden with it every year around all of our plant that works very well. Water is a very important especially for a young guarded roots are very fragile. Things are very small seeds need to be watered ribbiting the have to stay wet.

 It's great to get yourself a fan sprinkler fan sprinklers. I have found to be the absolute best way to water the garden unless you're going to use some type of a permanent irrigation system with drip irrigation or something like that fans Breakers are easy to move. 

They are very gentle on your garden they cover Or a very large space they're great for seedlings as well as adult plants get yourself a good fan sprinkler. , but it's not cheap to not a one this one I got from Ace Hardware.

 It's all metal as well. Don't buy cheap fans pictures that joke, they will break. They will leak the grill years won't work in them and just by good sprinkler. If you don't have a good sprinkler, you're not going to water your garden to not and you're just things are not going to go while you're not going to have time to hand water. 

Everything what's your plan to establish the racing tolly don't need to be watered quite as much so I'm going to hurt the water of every other day, but you probably can get away or going on a vacation for a few days as long as it's not too hot and dry and not watering your garden.

 But if you are going on vacation for more than a week or even a week make sure that you have somebody stopped by turn your sprinkler on at least one of those days, especially the time dry. 

We've made the mistake before of not watering come back to a dead guard. So you want to make sure that everything stays nice and nice and moist and water keep those weeds out and you're going to end up having a great harvest when it comes time in July August and September harvesting time is the reward of all the work and all the time and all the waiting the great time be prepared for what you're going to harvest make sure you have caning supplies ready. 

Make sure that you have ways to preserve the things that you have if you're going to do a vacuum seal the freezers or you're going to do canning or you're going to make things into jelly. 

Spaghetti sauces or whatever plan ahead weeks ahead of your Harvest time. If you look for the Northern Hemisphere like we are you're not going to start getting Tomatoes probably until August at the earliest and August and September even the doctoral were sometimes be prepared to you going to have awful lot of stuff coming in at once and you want to be ready to preserve that stuff. 

There's nothing worse than girl it a big healthy garden all year long and then wasting so much food because she didn't have time to preserve it think of easy ways freezing and back. Vacuum sealing is where the best ways to go. 

 Throw it in the freezer and you're done. Now, of course, depending on what you drew there's lots of things lots of ways to utilize your garden all throughout the year, especially by staggering a plant-based. So if you really want to make the most of your time and your Harvest throughout the year plant your quick growing things like your radishes and your leafy greens and things like that. It's tag is played. 

The put some of the beginning of the year that maybe two or three weeks later played another role or another section of like lettuces and things like that and then do the same thing in three weeks later that gives you a good staggered Harvest for those kind of things because lettuces and all your other leafy greens. Once they grow too mature. 

They're not good anymore. They generally will to see they get better you want the youngest leaves off of lettuces and things like that even for kale and spinach has and a lot of those things so stay A growing your planting is a great way to go to make the both of your harvest season for those types of plans. 

All right, so you got all your vegetable you harvest in your garden, but you're not quite done yet cover that grown. The best thing to do to prepare your garden for the next year is to cover that grown whether you use a cover crop like a winter wheat or something else that's going to grow into November and even through December, you know, it's good to keep room to the ground and things growing. The other thing you can do is use your Leaf compost and other things from Rob of the house. 

Vultures or straw wood chips cover that Garden space keeps it wet keeps it moist keeps the worms and bacteria and other things in your garden. It doesn't dry out. It doesn't blow away. You've got to be prepared and to hold the the nutrients and moisture that you have in that Garden space for the next year.

 So make sure that you cover the space Weevil your your plants and all that stuff that tomato juice toxins and some of our stocks that have died off leave that stuff all the girls.

 You can take that out next year. Whatever hasn't broken down, but all that stuff that It's a little stocks is going to go right back into the soil and get you ready for your next year. So for those of you out there looking to start a garden hopefully found some good information here.

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