How To Start A Mini Vegetable Garden. Lettuce and spinach do fairly well in shady conditions but most other vegetables do not. Mark out the area of your flowerbed and then go to work with a gardening fork.
You can avoid this labor altogether if you choose to build a raised vegetable garden. Put the 2 inches bottom in a glass of water. When you uncover the patch to plant these are easily cleared by hand hand or hoe and you will have a weed-seed-free bed.
When preparing your vegetable garden the most critical factor is soil quality.
Pick 3 to 5 of your favorite vegetables and buy 3 to 5 plants of each one. The seeds need to be covered with a cloche in order to maintain the soil temperature. Eggshells coffee grounds and. When you uncover the patch to plant these are easily cleared by hand hand or hoe and you will have a weed-seed-free bed.