For example intermingle vegetables, herbs and flowers all in the same garden bed to prevent pests that might pray on vegetables. If there is only one vegetable plant with an herb and a flower to the sides of it, the pests won’t want to move to the next plant, limiting the spread throughout your garden.

I’d love to own a whole gargantuan avocado plantation but it takes a whopping five years for a tree to begin bearing fruit. Fart.

While you are in an apartment, herb gardens are always a simple start: easy to care for, produce what you need, can be adorned with little army men for ambiance. I don’t have a vegetable garden, although I do have a number of fruit producing trees, and the best advice I can give is make sure you keep an eye on them, and on the critters living in your yard. With our mango tree, we are at a constant battle over the fruit with the squirrels, and actually our dogs as well, over the fruit. As with vegetables, just check on them, and if you have an animal menace, come up with harmless distractions, like bird seed feeders so the products of your labor are spared.

I grow green beans,onions,tomatoes,all sorts of peppers,a few varieties of squash,tons of different herbs,radishes,strawberries,cabbage,and lettuce.

I do a lot of container gardening too. Which is fun and very easy. I have raised beds in two spots. I put fencing around them today to keep the rabbits out. Even if you live in the city you can expect animals digging into your gardens.

With organic gardening you have to stay on top of everything. I was just out in the gardens here in the middle of the night trying to figure out what kind of bug was chewing on my bean plants lol.

Spend a lot of time reading up on what you want to grow. I would highly advise sticking with organic gardening. Maybe for your first year start out with two raised beds & some containers until you get the hang of things. Good luck and have fun!