"cardarch" wrote in news:1152315630.165607.68920
@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com:

Dear ME: Its rather late to start a vegatable garden. I suggest that
you go to your local nursery or garden store and see what they have to
offer in containers. If you'd like to slave away, you can dig up your
little plot and plant some string bean seeds. and some new zealand
spinach. and try some pumpkin seeds just for the heck of it. Why do
you want to go to so much trouble anyhow? XXO Doro


Now may be a good time to start if you're going for an in-ground garden.
Start removing the grass that's in the area you've got and consider
edging it out. (So the grass doesn't creap back in.)

You may want to put down some black plastic and "solarize" the soil. The
main point here is to kill off the grass that will want to grow back up
when you start next spring. (Someone else will have to tell you the best
time to do this--I never have and have grass problems.)

If you want something to get your feet wet with, plant some green beans.
Garden Bean Providers are what I grow around here, and they'll give you a
useful crop this year. Peas could be the same way, but this is my first
year growing them.

Keep your eye out for good deals on tools as stores change over. You'll
probably want a hoe, pitch fork (a poor man's tiller among other things),
and trowel.

Puckdropper
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