Any tips for a first time gardener? I plan on growing tomatoes, peppers and pea pods.
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keep it weeded, watered and make sure your garden is in the sun.
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Make sure you put a little fence around it so the critters won't get in and eat up all your veggies.
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Keep it weeded! If we let our garden go for just a couple days, it takes hours to get the weeds out. It's an awful pain!
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Make lots of compost, subscribe to gardening magazines and check out gardening books from the library. Compost nourishes the soil and the magazines and books give you tips you'd never think of.
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I agree with all the above tips, When I first started gardening, I read books and joined a garden club. Because I live in the western USA, Sunset Western Garden Book was my bible and still is. Ask lots of questions of other people who garden in your area as well.
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I was a firt time gardener 2 years ago. I had a small garden, tomatoes, cukes, zucchini, and pumpkings. I used the miracle grow bottles that come in a package with a hose attachment. I sprayed them with that may once a week or once every 2 weeks. It worked well. I have very dense soil and it seems hard to grow stuff, but that miracle grow stuff really helped. This year I'm trying peas and carrots -- eggplant, too! UGHHH
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try and start you seeds indoors with a small greenhouse/dome runs about 7 dollars and get them off to a good start comost and amenden the soil will with compost/ other organic matter and you will have a great crop!
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Pretty much same advice as others. But you can control insects really effectively by sprinkling diatomaceous earth on the plants and garden. Bugs impale temselves on it. Plant carrots or another root crop around your tomatoes. It increases production and flavor. Use blossom set on tomatoes, peppers and legumes. Get red plastic to put around the bases of tomato and pepper plants for earlier fruit.
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I've had really good luck with Roma Tomatoes. The plants always produce alot of tomatoes and they ripen fairly early.
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Well if your starting from seed this late, you want very fast growing tomatoes as well as peppers unless you are in South Florida, Texas or California. On tomatoes look into Purple Cherokee, Black Crim, Black Russian and Siberian types. Not only do they taste good, but the unusual color will raise curiosity and compliments. Any of these types will sell for $5 apiece should you choose to sell any, and those te smaller 8 to 12 ounce ones. They can grow 2 to 3 times that size.
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If you haven't planted yet, try a raised bed garden. THere are some great books on it. Mulch will help keep the weeds down and the moisture in. You can even mulch with newspaper if you can keep it from blowing away. Watch for those darned tomato worms. THey are big green ugly things and hard to see cuz they blend in with the leaves. You can just pick them off the plants if you can stand to touch them.
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