Introducing Myself

Hello, My name is Jerri and I live in Minnesota (zone 4b) and this is my 3rd year of gardening.... sort of. My first garden I had 3 years go was wonderful. Most of what I planted created a pretty good yeild of veggies. I then moved to a different rental to a different town and the soil was terrible. I didnt get a very good result at all. Last summer, since we were house hunting, I did a few tomatoes in containers because I didnt want to plant a full garden and then have to leave it.
We've since purchased our new home (Oct 2012). This home is in the same town so I can only guess the soil will be just as bad. I have a line of pine trees in the back of the house so I am planning on constructing raised beds this year. I like the thought of getting to build my own soil.

Ive started seedlings indoors this years. Ive started 7 types of tomatoes, peppers (hot and sweet), cucumbers (im thinking too early), and herbs.

I plan on adding asaragus and potatoes to my garden this year. Ive been researching on potato planting and still trying to figure out if Im going to plant them in the beds or containers. Im leaning toward containers for space saving. Id like to get some ideas on that.



What Id like to get out of this site?

* I would llike to learn alot about what I dont know about garden. Im still fairly new at this and would love to get some wonderful ideas and thoughts from others out there that are far more experienced.

* I would like to learn about raised bed gardening. What others use in thier soil. How the beds are made.

* I would like to find some really nice and great people out there that have the same interests as me and create some great gardening friends.


Thank you for reading and I hope to better my gardening skills and profit alot better this year then the last couple years. My root cellar is pretty empty right now and in dier need of some canning goods.

Now if only the snow would melt and the ground would warm up so I can get going on getting serious this year.