Pat Meadows wrote:

Rona, I think you would benefit by reading a couple of good
books on gardening. I'd suggest 'Square Foot Gardening' by
Mel Bartholomew. He has a website too:

http://www.squarefootgardening.com

He's a bit dogmatic and insists that there's only one way to
do things at times - which should be ignored - but his ideas
WORK, and you can modify them to fit your own particular
circumstances.

if you read SqFt Gardening it is very important to read his website
articles and to use more up-to-date sources of info. His book is
twenty years old and has not been updated. In it he advocates working
the dirt to an 18inch depth. I followed that lead when preparing my
garden. However on the website he says that that thinking is old and
6-8 inches is all you need if you use the right planting mix. His
frost dates were also a month off in the book so don't rely on that
(another point of initial confusion for me when I started).
DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)