|
|
Gardening, for beginners, need not be a traumatic experience. As a beginning gardener, you have lots of questions, such as....
- Where do I start?
- What do I grow?
- HOW do I start?
|
 |
Let's begin your first time garden experience with what you want to grow, since that will have an impact on where and how you actually start your project. Do you want to grow vegetables? Or maybe you have visions of armloads of flowers, ready to be cut and carried indoors to grace your tables. Here at Gardening for Beginners you will find the help and encouragement you need to get you growing in record time. You will probably want to start off small if you're a new gardener. There's no point in planning out a huge garden, whether it's full of vegetables or flowers, and then find that you don't have time for it... or worse yet, that gardening isn't really for you. In fact, you may want to start your first gardening endeavor with a container or two, a small mini-environment that you can pamper and pet as much as you like, and expand it from there in future seasons. The photo above is of a corner of my own container garden in SW Florida. If you look closely, you can see that the cabbages are all planted in containers, as are the eggplant and tomatoes. Those "sticks" you see are plumeria cuttings that are just beginning to get leaves. Ah-hah! Now you get it. You can have both flowers and vegetables, all in the same garden! You really don't have to make all the decisions at once when you're gardening, even as a beginner.
We want to make things as easy as possible when gardening. Beginners find that container gardening is perfect because you have so much more control over the entire process. Yes, it's cheaper to dig a plot by hand, chop the clods into a manageable size, plant your seeds or little transplants and then wait for nature to take its course, all the while watching out for weeds and garden pests. Gardening, for a beginner, means doing all that back-breaking, blister-popping work of establishing the plot before you can even think of anything like pleasure or fun. Gardening in containers allows you to eliminate many of these back-breaking chores. Choose the container you want to use, and it can be anything from an old bucket to a top-of-the-line Earth Box, add bagged potting soil and fertilizer and start planting. You can have a garden for a beginner or an expert all set up and growing in an afternoon, even though you've never grown anything in your life.
We highly recommend gardening in containers for beginners because it takes all the guesswork out of gardening, making it so easy even a dummy can do it. And remember those weeds and pests we mentioned earlier? Container gardening pretty much eliminates most if not all of that. Flowers or vegetables... even some berries and trees, can all be grown easily and successfully in a container, making this the ideal choice for gardening for beginners.
At Gardening for Beginners, our goal is to help you enjoy yourself while you're producing healthful fresh produce. Remember, gardening, even for beginners, should be fun!
|