Hi I am sorry to post this here. I have absolutely no skills when it comes to gardening or herb growing. In fact I am not the out doors' type of person. I hate getting dirty and I hate bugs but in this day and age I need to become independent away from big box stores, grocery and the poisonous products they sell not to mention what they do to our produce. If there is anyone I can PM to ask some questions to that would be great. I don't want to clog up this board with my inabilities to be self sufficient but this is the best place to ask people as I know there are many skilled people on this forum.
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Am Horticulture director at a large collective. Would love to help. Right off the bat, best general advice is KISS "keep it simple stupid." If you live in an area with fertile native soil, you can almost literally just throw a seed in the ground and with very little maintenance have a bounty
Lol, I actually live in an apartment and have a covered deck. The roof has slats so my garden will get wet. With that being said here are some questions. What type of containers should I grow in? What type of soil? I plan on growing zucchini, lettuce, cherry tomatoes and possibly carrots? Is that even possible? I live on the East Coast so we have summer, spring, winter, fall. We are in the winter season. When should I start planting? As for the herbs and medicinal herbs, can I do that inside and start now? If so, what type of pots, soil, nutrients etc. would I need? Thank you so much, you have no idea how much this means to me. This will be a challenge for me but a good one and I think it will be therapeutic as well.
Most store bought potting soil comes rich and ready to do. Don't need to add anything for your first time. if no raised bed, try fabric containers. They are more friendly to vigorous roots and come in all sizes
When you purchase your seeds, most packets contain the information for what climate zones should be planted when for each particular vegetable or fruit. There is a diagram that shows what kind of climate zone you live in. they are numbered. You can start anything inside, but i would suggest doing it a little closer to when your last frost occurs outside. For me in the central PNW our final frost is generally early to mid march.
Do you have a large deck? Because the zucchini plant gets quite large. Maybe it won’t since you are using pots? Carrots do well in loose soil