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<blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2408908" data-attributes="member: 31094">I'm not really sure how &quot;hard&quot; it is. The previous tenant hadn't planted anything, and there was one rose bush that had long since gone into hibernation and never came out, and the rest of the beds were all weeds. I spent several weekends digging through the beds with a fork and spade, on my hands and knees (and as someone with major back problems, it wasn't easy). In the flower beds, I mixed horse manure that my dad gave me with the dirt, then planted the seeds. Some seeds I tried just putting loosely on top with a very thin covering of soil, and other seeds I planted an inch or so deep. Nothing came up. In the front beds of my house, it's very shady, so I didn't have much hope there. I tried impatiens because everyone said those are a &quot;shade&quot; plant, but didn't see anything. Of course, I might have drowned those by overwatering.&nbsp;I thought the soil, once I got rid of all of the weeds and turned it up with a fork, looked nice and dark and meaty. In the veggie garden I didn't want to put manure on stuff I was gonna eat, so that's why I mixed in garden soil I got at the store along with a vegetable fertilizer. Maybe I needed more garden soil - I could only afford one bag and spread it out into about a four feet section.&nbsp;Maybe my vegetable plants are too close together? I planted all the veggies within that 4 feet. Maybe they got too much sun and not enough water, too. I dunno <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Maybe I will try pots next year, but those big planters are sooo expensive for someone on a tight budget.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hijinks, post: 2408908, member: 31094"] I'm not really sure how "hard" it is. The previous tenant hadn't planted anything, and there was one rose bush that had long since gone into hibernation and never came out, and the rest of the beds were all weeds. I spent several weekends digging through the beds with a fork and spade, on my hands and knees (and as someone with major back problems, it wasn't easy). In the flower beds, I mixed horse manure that my dad gave me with the dirt, then planted the seeds. Some seeds I tried just putting loosely on top with a very thin covering of soil, and other seeds I planted an inch or so deep. Nothing came up. In the front beds of my house, it's very shady, so I didn't have much hope there. I tried impatiens because everyone said those are a "shade" plant, but didn't see anything. Of course, I might have drowned those by overwatering. I thought the soil, once I got rid of all of the weeds and turned it up with a fork, looked nice and dark and meaty. In the veggie garden I didn't want to put manure on stuff I was gonna eat, so that's why I mixed in garden soil I got at the store along with a vegetable fertilizer. Maybe I needed more garden soil - I could only afford one bag and spread it out into about a four feet section. Maybe my vegetable plants are too close together? I planted all the veggies within that 4 feet. Maybe they got too much sun and not enough water, too. I dunno :( Maybe I will try pots next year, but those big planters are sooo expensive for someone on a tight budget. [/QUOTE]

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