Plant a garden!

Hi, this is a great idea but I do not know how to plant. We need to buy the seeds and buy fertilizer.

My husband and I recently moved to the country and we will have a garden this year. Next winter, we plan to heat with wood and so we will be a greener family and we will be saving money too. I would like to put in some other more economical things into the house too and I intend to learn to do more on our own to save even more money. Thanks for the advice and good luck with your garden!

We're micro-farming this year, since we moved back out into the country. (Definition of microfarming: Farming on five acres or less. We have a little over one acre) We're planning on turning it into something of a business, grwing enough for ourselves and to sell. We're planing on doing alot of drying, freezing, canning too. I'm hoping to experiment with tea-making...it'll sure be an interesting year, this year. And we're only a little over a month away from starting! Aaahh! My only real worry, is that the ground's somewhat hard and I dunno if we'll be able to rent a rottotiller...and the ground's rather poor because the previous owners (who haven't owned it for over a year now) used a ton of chemicles to kill weeds and its hurt the health of the soil. We've a good amount of compost already, but it still worries me. We'll see. To saving money and helping others to save money!

I plant a garden every year and am already dreaming of my garden for this spring. Can't wait until WalMart starts selling their seeds. Certain ones are usually $.10 a pack. This year I will be planting a much bigger garden. You need to grow your own just to be able to afford produce this year. Consider the possibility of even selling or trading extras.

Sounds like a good plan! Too bad I don't have soil to plant my garden :P I'm renting space so I can't just dig up and plant. My parents do have a small greenhouse back home though, they keep flowers but not vegetables. I think I'll suggest that they start adding vegetables in their garden, I think they'll like the idea. Thanks for the response on my discussion!

I love to garden and can not wait to start ours up again this year... granted you dont get any fruit/veggies to pick til around july/aug ...but it is so great to pick some tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers and make a fresh salad and a stir fry with your own veggies. this year I am going to try to branch out and plant some more things that we dont normally do... we have been pretty lucky with the gardening and I hope it continues for us...LOL ahhh spring!!! cant wait!!