I am going to start a vegetble garden this year, any suggestions?

I used to grow a big garden, but just am not able anymore. I still love growin "salad" gardens. I love to grow lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers and hot peppers and onions. My Mom always swears by raised beds for onions, at least. I may try growing in containers this year and see how that turns out! And yes, marigolds do work. I usually plant them in the flower beds, too. Lots of insects will keep away from them. lol Good luck with your garden! Let us know how it turns out!

Good for you. It would help to have your soil checked to see what it needed. As far as the landscape fabric goes it does work but you have to tear it where you want to plant anything. That will leave places for weeds to come up next year. It is just as good to put news paper down and some soil over that to keep weeds down. Make sure that you have 5 or more layers of paper over the ground to keep out light of you can even use cardboard. These will break down in the soil and actually enrich the soil and help to conserve moisture. Asparagus should be planted in a spot that is especially prepared for them because they can live for 20 years or more. Corn can be grown with cucumbers growing up them. It is a space saving idea. If you have access t cow manure then it is good for fertilizer for your garden. Put a 1/2 to 4 inch layer on the garden and rotor till it in. You can also rotor till in leaves, grass clippings and other vegetable material.

You might try finding a book called Square Foot Gardening, or looking up "French Intensive Gardening." These are techniques for packing large amounts of produce into small amounts of space. Square Foot Gardening actually involves setting up a 4'x 4' grid, so each item gets planted in a one foot square block. I haven't really read up on the French Intensive approach. Save your vegetable waste. If you don't have room for an outdoor compost bin, you can compost indoors with a plastic bin full of earthworms. Some specialty garden suppliers, e.g. the Gardener's Supply Company (www.gardeners.com) will sell them to you. You want the type known as "red wigglers," which are sometimes be found at bait shops as "night crawlers."

a very cool idia

vary good,by helping ourselves we help others in that way,your food may even be more pure than the ones we buy. Good luck,i think i will do the same thing.

If you decide to grow both tomatoes and peppers do not grow them right next to eachother or you will end up with very small veggies. Just a bit of advice I found out last year when it was too late.

I tried planting eggplants here in Calgary . . they don't grow. So, I just plant peppers and tomatoes.