Home grown tomato

Hey Ya'll!!
My gardening blog somehow got deleted :( so I'm starting over. Ya'll bare with me as I learn all about this blogging thing :)

I want to dig deep into gardening and share how we started our garden for 2020!
If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them in the comment section! I respond.

This year, we decided to move our garden spot. So, this means turning over unturned dirt...breaking ground. This can be a hard task when first starting a garden. When the ground has never been broke or at least its been a long time since it had. You have the till it and get the dirt worked up. We've found out over the years that a walk behind tiller is just hard...but if this is what you have it works fine. I know of you may not have a tiller. This could be the first time you've ever ventured into the whole gardening thing. I understand! Thankfully, we recently got a tiller attachment for our tractor. It's been a lifesaver!!But before I jump into tilling the dirt, I first needed to decide on what veggies I wanted to grow. I decided on potatoes, corn, green beans, carrots, cabbage, tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, cucumber, zucchini, yellow squash, cantaloupe, & watermelon. Here in Kentucky we normally plant around Derby time or the first of May. But on the back of the seed packets it shows a map of where and what time to plant the seeds. I know cabbage is a cooler weather crop so we needed to get it in the ground a little sooner than the rest.
We planned out how big of an area I would need for everything to grow its best and not be crowded. The area we decided on was 30x60 spot. We staked it off with sticks and twine. I put a stick at each corner so my husband would know where to till. He then got to tilling. He did a couple passes through and I added in fertilizer. When starting in a new spot or just starting it's always good to add fertilizer to the dirt. I sprinkled in all purpose 10-10-10...it's 10% Nitrogen, 10% Phosphate, and 10% Potassium. This just adds nutrients to your dirt to ensure for good plant growth. After the fertilizer was added he did several other passes. Getting the dirt as fine as we can. Of course, there clumps of grass and you want to get it out. So. me and the kids jumped in to start pitching them.. Get as much as you can out, if not you'll be fighting it later as your garden starts to grow...so will the grass. before planting you want your dirt to not be too dry or too wet..it's hard to describe but think of a bag of top soil.
I then took sticks and twine(& a chain because I ran out of twine lol...we improvised..haha) and started making where the rows would be, keeping it as straight as possible. I grabbed a hoe and garden rake(hard rake) and began to make dig our rows. We planted the potatoes(mounding row), corn, and green beans.....lightly covering it with dirt.
It was on the next plants. & those are the was the mounding ones. The watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, squash, & zucchini. Make mounds and plant the seeds (or plants..if you have those instead of seeds) on top of the mounds.
The tomatoes, peppers, and cabbage were plants and we planted them about 2 foot apart. The carrots were sprinkled in and lightly covered in a row....those little stinkers are so incredibly small! I couldn't see where I was really planting them lol!! I just hoped for the best and called it a day.
We did end up putting a fence around our garden because of the rabbits..just some metal stakes and chicken wire.
There are so many different ways of growing your own garden. We just put ours on the ground but there's also raised beds that you could try. I don't think nothing taste better than a home grown tomato or fresh corn! The store bought just don't have the same taste and once you get a taste for the home grown you won't ever want the store bought again. Now don't get me wrong growing a garden takes hard work and seem like it’s slower than molasses....but the benefits are well worth it! Knowing what your eating, how it's grown, and knowing no chemicals have been put on it....putting great food on the table for you and your family. Having fresh produce to make your recipes...I just love growing a garden.
I wanted to give some details of how we have started ours and I hope it has inspired you to start growing your own! If you have any questions or I forgot to add something... just comment below!!