Are you a first time vegetable/fruit gardener? A long time v/f gardener? Or one

i guess i wills top on being a planner..maybe nextweek and i will let you know on the progressthanks for the tips and sharing..

Good for you, go for it, you'll be glad you did!

I bought pots at the dollar store, seeds at the dollar store (6 packages for a dollar), dirt at the cheapest place I could find (Kmart) that was all natural/organic ( was like 4, 5, or 6 bucks), so total cost was about $20 dollars or less to get started this year and I've been eating salad once a week ever since. Just put dirt in pots, followed directions on packages for putting seeds in the ground, and watered when get dry. The stuff I'm growing is getting eaten alive by bugs and mold, but my porch garden is going strong. So you're actually better off with pots some years. So go for it! I have friends who cheat, they just buy stuff at the gardening centers that has already grown like tomato plants, etc. They just buy bigger pots, repot and grow either in their gardens or on their porches. Costs way more. But saves on gas, just go to the porch or garden and pick lunch! Time: We start our gardens on Memorial Day (tradition). Replant whatever hasn't grown on July 4th ( or any day before it that we can get time off). Pots: At one point they were everywhere! Every store from the dollar store to Kmart to Lowes. It only takes one day and a few pots to get started. One of my friends started with one pot and lettuce. Come on, you can do it! Go from planning to actualizing!

I envy you your fruit trees. Tomato and jalapeno pepper plants, you can make your own salsa! I went back to planting veggies, but with the bugs as well as mold, only my porch garden is doing very well. So I guess I'm a porch gardener this year. It rains for weeks at a time and I'm not sure which veggies grow in rain forests. Good luck with your veggies, thanks for responding and take care.

I envy you for your black walnut trees and mulberry bushes. A pear tree, I would also like. There was supposedly one on my property when I bought it, but I never have seen/found it. You are not only planting a garden with your children, you are also planting memories. I have many memories of my Mother and I (and even sometimes my Dad-who mostly worked downstate so it wasn't often) working on the garden together. My husband also has many memories of gardening with his Mother and then later on going to work for a potato farmer. Thank you very much for your response, it was a very, very good one.