How to start a garden:

Love and Gardening is in Zone 7.

Now that you have checked your zone. And have looked into which herbs and veggies you want to grow and will grow in your zone. Here are a few garden tips:

• Start small: Try up to 6 containers or a space no bigger than 4 x 4.
• Pick your spot: A spot that gets at least 6 hours of sun & you have water access close by.
• Soil: The soil you get from your yard will need to be amended with compost or organic matter.
• Keep it manageable by starting with transplants. This will give you the best success.
• You will want to plant everything based on size from smallest to tallest based on how and where the sun rises. So everything gets sun and is not cover by another plant.
• If you must and want to start with seeds. Use easy seeds like radishes, lettuce and sunflower seeds.
• Don't forget to check the growing time for your zone.

Here is a growing calendar:

http://www.burpee.com/gygg/growingCalendarNoZipCode.jsp

GARDEN DEFINITIONS:

1. Compost: Kitchen scraps and yard waste that has been decomposed. And than can be used as a natural fertilizer.
2. Organic Matter: decaying plants & animal waste (horse, cows and chicken waste only)
3. Transplants: The plants that are garden ready. And the act of removing from one spot into a new spot.