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Do you grow your own veggies or fruit?
Thinking about starting a small garden outside next to my patio. I probably would start off with something kind of easy like tomatoes and cucumbers. Maybe even peppers. If you grow your own, what do you have and do you have any green thumb tips for a noob?
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Gardening is easy if you prepare the soil and get the location (sun) right. AND you have the time. With a new baby we haven't been gardening but we were growing plant seed/water/harvest stuff with seeds from Home Depot, not too complicated. BTW, a gardening site may yield more fruitful search results than a car forum. 
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Used to garden a ton myself, but the area I live in now has crappy weather, so we don't bother much.
Tomatoes are always a good start, as you can grow them very successfully in a pot (as well as peppers).
Tomatoes do great in an organic soil, with good drainage. Try to keep the watering steady. Because tomatoes like water, people often get the impression that you need to water the crap out of them. Over-watering, especially around the fruit stage really isn't that good for them, as it can cause splitting in the fruit, as can uneven watering. Its best to give them a steady watering and keep the soil pretty moist.
Come fruiting time, you can kick back on your high nitrogen fertilizer a bit ( as this promotes more leaf growth). You can concentrate more on potash etc. for fruit development.
And of course, most important, and last but not least..........for tomatoes and peppers.......sun, sun, sun, sun, sun, sun, sun.
Cheers
Tomatoes are always a good start, as you can grow them very successfully in a pot (as well as peppers).
Tomatoes do great in an organic soil, with good drainage. Try to keep the watering steady. Because tomatoes like water, people often get the impression that you need to water the crap out of them. Over-watering, especially around the fruit stage really isn't that good for them, as it can cause splitting in the fruit, as can uneven watering. Its best to give them a steady watering and keep the soil pretty moist.
Come fruiting time, you can kick back on your high nitrogen fertilizer a bit ( as this promotes more leaf growth). You can concentrate more on potash etc. for fruit development.
And of course, most important, and last but not least..........for tomatoes and peppers.......sun, sun, sun, sun, sun, sun, sun.
Cheers