Me and my wife just finished moving in to our first home and we want to have a vegetable garden next Summer. Problem is we both know absolutely NOTHING about gardening. Neither of us ever did any growing up, nor did our parents really do much either.I was hoping the community here could give some good tips to help us get started. We a do not have a ton of space, probably from a rough estimate I did a minute ago 12x50 at the max and that would need to include walking space since most of it is our side yard. We also live in Ohio so winter will need to be accounted for. If possible we would really like to do tomatoes and I have heard we may be able to grow them off the side of our garage saving us some space, and zucchinis would also be nice! Outside those we are open to any suggestions.Anyways if anyone has helpful websites, step by step guides, general tips, advice on fertilizers or pesticides to use/not use all of it is appreciated, since as I said we are completely ignorant on this subject!
My suggestion for first timers would be a no-dig garden. You should be able to find something on this via a search engine. Basically you build up layers of soil, manure and organic matter, and plant your seedlings into the top layer of soil, through a layer of mulch.
According to me you take the guidance of special companies which provides healthy foods for public and good in this field.
You will love to grow yellow tomatoes. They are easy. Again less work. They will come out great. They will be a great conversation piece around your house. My freezer always has some stuffed bell peppers inside. Whenever my wife (or myself) doesn’t feel like cooking, unexpected guest, after a late night of partying/dancing, or listening to jazz at a locate club, in goes some stuffed bell peppers. She stuffs them with shrimp, sausage, hamburger, or ham/potato.
When you scroll down to the bottom they have provided two condensed ebooks for free. One is on growing veg and the other (and most important) is on saving and using your own veg seeds. Saving and using your own veg seeds is crucial because the 'bought' seeds are deliberately made to be weak strains. They will give good yields and then nothing. Alan talks about this at cuttingthroughthematrix (free audio). Good luck
