Grow what you like to eat. I started with some radish, quick rewards with them they should be ready in 25 days or so and I just ate some sprouts today. I am also aiming for a salsa theme.

Nice job on the boxes! I concur with Alison that you should grow what you like to eat. That's what I am doing with my first year gardening. I've got just over 130 SF of space so I'm growing over a dozen veggies. With your 24 SF, you can grow salad for a couple for the season, plus a veggie every night. It's an incredible amount of space.

For your first crops, I'd recommend the cool weather crops, like lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, peas, carrots, etc. Radishes are great too as Alison said.

Finally, if you want to see what not to do (and some of what TO DO), check out my blog. It's a light hearted look at my first year gardening with the SFG method.

Best of luck to you! Enjoy the process and the results!

Here is a link that might be useful: Sinfonian's gardening adventure!

Thanks for the tips! Sinfonian, (Kahlua, Grenadine, Grand Marnier?) you have been quite prolific and I will use your experiences as a guide. We both live here in Seattle so the information is pertinent.

So, it will be radish, beets, lettuce, onions, spinach and broccoli going in soon to start out I guess. Then comes the slugs, the cats, the squirrels, the freakish freeze in late April, etc Let me apologize in advance, for I have started gardening in the NW and the gods will surely punish all of us.

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I forgot to mention you can look up your county extension service and they will tell you which varieties of vegetables have been tested in your area and do well and when to plant them, you might even catch an annual tomato sale as I did. They are a great resource and make some decisions easier.

Me too agree with you growing what you like. If i where you i will start with things that are small, easy and fast to harvest, like radish (3 weeks), scallions, carrots, lettuce, spinach, basil, etc.

Also i will introduce one plant of tomato, a couple of peppers since the don't grow more than 24". A good advice is to take advantage of your fence in the back and use it as a trellis (Assuming your fence faces north).

Again, thats me, i am not so sure what you like to eat. Another suggestion, start with hibrid plants since they are more resistant to dissease. Good luck!

I posted initially and didn't even notice your name. Great to see another Seattleite! I could also suggest you check out Ft2Garden.com, both because it's a great place to get info that's easily stored there on SFG but also it would be great to have another person from Seattle there.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ft2Garden.com

Thanks again yÂall. I will take your advice; start easy with some fast and simple early spring plantings. My little girl is excited about planting carrots though!

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