How to Select a Spot for a Garden

Series Summary

Before embarking upon the exciting adventure of creating your own garden, there are some important issues to consider. Where is the best spot for a garden? What type of soil should you use? What should you plant in your garden? What type of style are you looking for? How do you use fertilizer? If you are new to gardening, or just don't have a lot of time to invest in maintaining a garden, these videos on low maintenance gardening are a great place to get started.

In this sereis of free videos you'll get gardening tips from an expert on creating your own garden. Doug Smiddy offers advice on choosing the best spot for your garden, what tools and supplies you'll need to get started, how to choose soil and fertilizer, and how to pick vegetables to grow in your garden. He also demonstrates how to pull weeds, how to water your plants, and how and when to pick beans, tomatoes, peppers and more. Once you get a few ideas from these video clips you'll be able to shape and grow your garden to meet your needs.

Video Transcript

"I'm Doug Smiddy of Smiddy's Gardening Services here on behalf of expertvillage.com and welcome to my garden. Today we're here to talk about low maintenance gardening. Now what we're going to talk about is where to put the garden. Probably the most important decision you're going to have make. Now what I did before I choose this location was I watched the sun everyday and watched how the light shined on a particular area and where is going to get the most sunlight, sun exposure and the slope of the ground too that's also very important. Now, your plants want at least 8 hours of direct sunlight a day. So this location turned out to be ideal. The sun pretty much for the season rises directly behind me which is to the east and comes overhead and back around this way. In this particular garden I get between 8 and 10 hours of direct sunlight a day but I can not over emphasize how important it is to look at your yard and even take notes as to what areas are going to get that amount of sun before you choose it."