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Well im very new to this gardening milarky but am fed up with my little horrid hole of a garden, so calling all garden buffs please help. I need you advice of choice of plants, planting, soil, sunlight, maintenance EVERYTHING. Any useful sites you recommend or nuggets of information please don't hesitate to send them my way.

Cheers,


Cath

Hi Cath
Welcome to the forum!

Hi Cath, welcome to the forum. Only been a member for about a week myself but they sure are friendly here. I've been serious gardening for about a year and if I can advise you on what to grow ------ weeds! They are real easy and require no work at all.

Hi there,


Welcome to the Forum!!!

Hi Sroat and welcome to the forum. As you can see, there are lots of topics for you to post to so ask all the questions you need. I'm sure there will be lots of folks who can help you.

welcome to the forums... everyone here is soo nice i hope you enjoy it....

cath, nearly everything you need is here on www.agardenersforum.com

and if you can't find it, do a forum search and i can almost promise you that if it isn't here, one of us has posted a link to it.

now, if you want quick answers without doing a lot of surfing, post your question in the main areas of the forum, depending on what you are trying to ask (landscape, fruits and veggies, etc) and you will amost suredly get an expert answer quickly.

Hi Cath
Welcome to the forum
Nice to meet you.

Warning - these nice people are addicting!

The best advice I can give you , is start a compost pile . There are threads on how that is done under Organically Speaking , so I am not going to bore you with that here . Until you have a compost pile made get some compost at the garden center in the form of composted manuer or mushroom compost . If you know anyone that has chickens or rabbits that is the best form of barnyard manuer there is . Add these to your soil as well as crushed leaves , it will decompose and feed your plants naturally . I did that for the first year after I moved here , then used the leaves and other compost to enrich the soil to where I can get things to grow alot better now .

Check with other gardeners in your area and the local nurseries and garden centers to find out what type of plants grow well in your area .
Talk to your neighbors who have plants and flowers , chances are if it will grow in their yard it will grow in yours with a little tender loving care .

There are lots of online resources and if you have a cable system that gets HGTV check out Paul James in Gardening By the Yard . That guy is good and funny too . There are other gardening shows full of useful information . Then the best thing to do is just putter around this site and read and ask questions of other members .

Welcome to the forum! You've come to the right place to find out everything you always wanted to know about gardening. There is a wealth of information here and plenty of people to help you. We're glad to have you aboard. You're really going to love it!