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There is lots of good advice here, so I'll add just two: 1) Grow what you like to eat 2) Many veggies are attractive plants in their own right and look pretty mixed with flowers in a potager garden. My faves are swiss chard, kale, cabbages, lettuce, peppers, herbs and squashes. Tomato vines...

Thank you! I am lucky - he worked most of last summer on them. Weeding is very easy, but one big challenge will be maintinaing the soil quality; alhtough I did idscover that I can trench compost right in these beds. Last fall I did an experiment where I ground up kitchen scraps with water in...

I learned a great tomato trick years ago from a much more experienced gardener and I've done this every year with great results: Peter's Perfect Tomatos When you transplant do the following: 1) Dig a hole as deep as the seedling height and twice as wide as the seedling. 2) Fill the hole 1/2...

My husband built raised beds out of Trex (the deck material) and they turned out really well: He also installed plastic pipe on each side of the beds; and the white hoops (also plastic pipe) go into them. The bed in the front is made from pine - that one is for asparagus, which I ordered...