With some, the home garden is a great hobby; with others, especially in these days of low income and high prices, a great help. There are many in both groups whose experience in gardening has been restricted within very narrow bounds, and whose present spare time for gardening is limited. So, if you want to do practical, efficient healthy gardening, and do it with the least possible fuss and loss of time, than this is your 'first aid' guide.
With our garden guide, it's easy to cultivate lettuce, herbs, peppers, cherry tomatoes, edible flowers, and other fruits, vegetables and flowers in an beautiful and efficient, organic based environment right in your backyard.
When picking the spot best suited for your garden, if possible keep in mind the following:
Note: Fill all of these requirements that you can, and then by taking full advantage of the advantages you have, you can discount the disadvantages. After all it is careful, persistent work, more than natural advantages, that will tell the story about your garden.
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By creating a healthy garden and lifestyle you will enjoy tasty fresh greens at every meal, regain energy levels, help restore your immune system, and give yourself and your family the best chance of living long, happy & healthy lives.
And, while we still have the reader on this gardening buttonhole, we want to make a suggestion or two about using a guide like this. Do not, on the one hand, read it through and then put it away in some folder with the old email, and trust your memory for the instruction it may give; do not, on the other hand, wait until you think it is time to plant a thing, and then go and look it up. For instance, do not, about the middle of May, begin investigating how many onion seeds to put in a hill; you will find out that they should have been put in, in drills, six weeks before.
Bookmark and read the whole guide through carefully at your first opportunity, make a list of the things you should do for your own vegetable garden, and put opposite them the proper dates for your own vicinity and than print that information. Keep this available, as a working guide, and refer to special matters as you get to them.
Do not feel discouraged that you cannot be promised immediate success at the start. We know from personal experience and from the experience of others that our "guide-gardening" is a practical thing. If you do your work carefully and thoroughly, you may be confident that a very great measure of success will reward the efforts of your first garden season.
And we know too, that you will find it the most entrancing game you ever played.
Good luck to you!
~ Andrew Weil
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