Whether you have a window box for your garden or several acres, many of the decisions are the same. You must decide:
if you intend to start your own plants or buy bedding plants;
what kind of vegetables and how much space you will need;
are you going for one vegetable or a complete line;
do you want to start early in the year as well as trying to grow up until the fall holidays;
will you be happy with 3 months or less in the summer.
On this site, we will be emphasizing a combination of three planting options. We will use the raised bed system to plant on the square foot method controlling weeds and fertilizing needs with mulch patterned after the no work gardening system. There are many books available on these subjects and if you feel the need to know more than I will explain, many of the older, still valid, books are available on Amazon.com .
For the easiest garden, take a trash bag, make some slits in the bottom for excess water to drain, put a bag of soil mix inside and plant a tomato plant or two. Sit the bags outside where it will receive sunshine and keep the soil fairly most. You will have your tomatoes for the summer.
If you take 20 bags and repeat this operation sitting them in your back yard, you will have a crop large enough to sell to your neighbors. For a larger operation, purchase bags designed for this type of production and put a hundred plants on that vacant lot close to where you live and tomatoes too numerous to sell will appear.
Not easy enough for you. In the fall, take a bag of leaves that one of your neighbors sat out for trash pickup. Dump it on the ground where you want a tomato plant to grow. In the spring, move the leaves enough to be able to place the roots of the tomato plant on the ground and then pull the leaves back up around the plant. Water well.
No work. No expense. No tools. Lots of tomatoes! ! !
Keeping it simple, if one lives in a urban community, you may go door to door selling fresh produce. In some areas, a simple table with a tent cover would suffice for a stand to increase sales. From your back yard you should be able to raise enough to feed your family as well as bring in extra money. Many businesses have started in this manner and what I wish to show you is how you can grow and grow.
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