I basically want to have the least cost to me and use mother earth and maybe my food scarping to good use!
I am just outside of Calgary Alberta Canada. I have an open slate and a bunch of room. I don't want to start TOO big, but I would like to have something that could feed at least one person for a week to start. Tomaotes, sweet potatoes, red onion, spinach, cucumber, brocolli and esparagus... those are my faves...
I would really love to have a mentor, someone that has done this and can point me in the right direction to start!... thanks!
I posted this same thing in intorduce yourself... saw that first...
), some of us for many years. You get better help if you ask specific questions and give lots of information about what your garden site is like. But figure that especially getting started, its going to be a considerable investment in time and some investment of money -- cheap tools are a pain, you need good ones. Looking at your list, the asparagus if you plant it now, you (with luck) will be eating your first asparagus in three years. The rest could all produce this year, but onion, spinach, broccoli are cool weather crops. I don't know what your growing season is like up there in Alberta. If you are close to done with snow and frost, you should go buy plants of those three and put them in the ground NOW. The tomatoes don't go out until the soil is warmer and danger of frost is past, but unless that is two months from now, you will be better off to buy tomato plants also. If you want something started from seed, you could start cucumber seeds indoors now. It's a fast grower and will be ready by the time your ground is warm enough.