Starting a garden? Let’s start planning!

Feature #28, March 22, 2010

Now that I’ve moved, I’m finally in a home that has a great yard, and plenty of mature flowering shrubs and trees.  With the onset of Spring, I’m ready to start thinking about a garden! I can admit (don’t like to, but will) I don’t have a green thumb. I can keep a few houseplants, but once we get to the garden, I need help!  I’ve read a few great blog posts over the weekend for some gardening assistance.

At Home At Home, has a post about the vegetables and herbs she’s going to plant in her garden.  Just looking at her pictures makes me want to get started!

So now I’m looking for a step-by-step guide, fool-proof method to get started. Petit Elefant has a post on “How to plant a vegetable garden”! Was she reading my mind or what?!

To follow her easy steps, read below and visit her post. I need more egg cartons! Maybe I’ll use paper Dixie cups instead? This is usually why my gardening goes south, quickly!

Step by Step Guide – Article by Allison Czarnecki

Step 1: Egg Cartons

I start saving egg cartons in about January. Yes, really. They make the perfect little sized containers to transplant your plants once the ground is warm enough outside. Egg cartons are biodegradable, free {well, you know what I mean}, and you’re recycling. Win-win-win.

Step 2: Seeds

I don’t buy my seeds from catalogs, I just pick them up at the local grocery store, for 50% off their listed price {read: I rarely pay more than $1 per seed packet}. Get ’em wherever you like, and whatever variety of vegetables you’ll enjoy. I try to branch out a little more each year. Here’s what’s on the menu this season: Carrots, Beets, Peas, Spinach, Cucumber, & Onions.

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