Easy Instant Vegetable Garden

Here's a great weekend garden project - actually it will only take an hour - that's easy to do, low cost, and will provide you joy and good organic treats all summer long.  It's also a great project to do with your kids.

Project Rating (1 = low, 5 = high)Time: 1    Cost: 1     Effort: 2     Fun: 4

Tools needed:

- Shovel

Materials Needed:
- 2 bags of soil (topsoil or triple mix is best)
- vegetable plants (get small to medium size plants at your local garden store or Home Depot)
- Vegetable fertilizer (Miracle Grow for vegetables is good)

Cost:
- $10 for soil
- $40 for plants (cost for 5 plants)
- $15 for 2 tomato cages or a wide lattice
- total $65

Steps

1. Pick an area in your yard that gets lots of sun.  Somewhere along a fence is preferred is you will be growing any vine type veggies (like tomatoes) as it makes it easier to support them as the plants grow taller.
   
2. Dig out the grass with a regular shovel or edger.  You only need to go a few inches deep just to the grass roots and literally shave off the top layer of grass sod exposing the soil underneath.  Discard the grass sod.
   
3. Rake the soil to break it up.  Add 2 bags of new topsoil or triple mix
   
4. Dig holes for each vegetable plant with a hand shovel (you should only need small holes).  Make sure to space each vegetable far enough apart to give it some room when it grows bigger.
   
5. Fertilize after a 10 days or so
   
6. That's it.  Your Done !