A Complete Guide to Digging & Planting Your First Vegetable Garden: Tomatoes, Peppers & Herbs

I thoroughly cover all the aspects of starting your first vegetable garden. From selecting the right location & tracking the sun through planting, fertilizing, staking, watering tomatoes and peppers. Plus I show you how to start cilantro, dill and basil from seed. This is great video for first time gardeners. It is a complete guide to help you join the world vegetable gardening.
Table of Contents
0:00 Introduction
0:48 The Basic Size for Your First Garden
1:33 Basic Principles to Turning the Bed & Adding Bagged Soil
5:00 All the Basic Materials for Your First Garden
7:04 Picking the Right Location - Details on the Sun
8:28 Picking the Right Size for Your Garden
8:54 Cover Your Garden Space with Cardboard (4-6 Weeks)
9:38 Where to Plant Your Plants Based on Height & Shading
11:02 Creating a Weed Barrier with Cardboard
12:46 Using The Garden Soil Bags to Build Your Soil
14:04 Planting the Peppers: All the Steps
16:45 Tomato Spacing and What Indeterminate Means
17:30 Planting Tomatoes: All the Steps
21:38 Planting Chive and Oregano Transplants
23:44 Planting Basil from Seeds
25:24 Planting Dill from Seeds
26:10 Planting Cilantro from Seeds
27:26 Top Dressing with Fertilizer and Staking Your Plants
30:14 Conclusion and Watering Tips
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How is your garden going now

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@@TK-sr2hz I have since moved BUT a do have a garden currently and it's actually doing amazing. Thanks for asking!

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Lorann Harris I don't understand why he put cardboard.. English is not my mother language maybe i missed some information why he put it on the soil?

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@@shadegrey369 its to kill off of the old plants so they dont grow again.

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Starting my first garden today. Watched this to help me. Thank yoU!

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Thank you Gary for your demonstration! I've learned a lot from this video! Your son I am sure is grateful for your wisdom!

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Beginner and budget friendly. Thank you so much!

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A very comprehensive video for a starter, appreciate it.

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Thank you. I know this all seems so basic to so many people. I bought my first property at over 40 years old. I lived in apartments, town houses and lofts my whole life. I want to grow my own vegetables in summer. I really have no idea what I am doing and live in the North East. It's a short growing season. I have everything I need to start seeds in March, and am looking to prepare a 10x20 foot area. Thank you for the video.

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Thank you very much for posting this. It was super helpful. I'm planning on taking my veggies up from seed this year and planting my first real garden. Wish me luck!

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Hes in Tennessee but the wife just saw it and it is thriving... well for a college garden.

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Thanks a bunch I learned a lot I'm just I'm just a vegetable garden as well as a a garden just with flowers so that was a lot of helpful information and great ideas especially the cardboard and I don't have it all down but I got I got a lot from this video thanks a lot

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I’d like to see it’s progress as well!

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Going to share this video with my good friend who is a beginner gardener. We have difficulty growing in our backyard soil. So I am growing everything in raised garden beds, grow bags, and huge pots. As always, thank you for sharing is very important information. PS. Tennessee is my home state.

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Hi Gary, Well how lucky is that son of yours? ;) Great video, especially for those of us starting to garden. I actually garden for years but ornamentals, now starting with edibles. I wish I had been doing both all along, by now I would have beds with wonderful soft loamy and fertile soil instead of clay and rocky soil, better late than never. Thank you, much appreciated!!

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Really enjoyed the video Gary - and my garden of virgin soil is doing so well after using all your information from your videos- I'm so pleased. I thought I could never grow veggies indoors from seed and plant them out and see it all through, but it really works!!! It is really nice to go out into the garden several times a day to see what's happening - it is constantly changing. And the beneficial insects are attracted to the herbs and flowering squashes and tomatoes and peppers. Lost two squash plants, I think one to a borer and the other to squash bugs, the little devils, but was lucky to find them and their eggs and get rid of them. Thanks so much for all you do and hope your summer goes very well in your gardens. (I am wondering how your "winning" tomato plant is coming along).

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Thank you!! I haven’t gardened for years (5-8). I used to just plant and go... no thought whatsoever to soil quality or bugs. Luckily I’ve only killed 2 plants over the years (20). I’m in CA’s Central Valley. I have more free time now, a huge yard, and two boxes built. I want to be self sufficient so this time I’m learning everything I can. I love your series... a happy accident.

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Thanks, G! Great video. I will be trying this soon.

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I always have a terrible time trying to start herb seeds. I haven't tried direct sowing, though. I just always cave in and buy the transplants.

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Yeah if you do the over seeding method like I did, plenty germinate.

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Thanks for your advice man. I started my first actual garden today and can't wait to see what it produces.

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Thank you for this!! Stay Lovely, stay blessed, Coley

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Thank you!! I just ordered from you and can't wait to start our first garden😁

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Your video is so helpful, and your so knowledgeable thank you for sharing

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[@ryanleayman801]

Started my garden this year in the clay heavy dirt of berks county PA. And people asked me how I got so damn skinny... well.. this is how

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Ryan Leayman haha too funny

[@willt3559]

Ryan Leayman I’m tryna dig through clay and rocks in NY think I’ve lost 5 lbs in 2 days 😂

[@daniellecarney1487]

I love your videos. I actually think I could do this! Thanks so much.

[@mary-jaymandix1217]

I can actually feel your passion into gardening

[@ralphtamez5492]

Could you use a tiller, when starting?

[@gypsy_soul22]

Thank you so much, Gary! I found the perfect space for a small vegetable garden, but I was feeling a bit overwhelmed on where to begin. This video was helpful and I'm excited to start gardening for the first time ^_^

[@jenniferjoseph5914]

All the details were well explained to me. I am preparing my garden today. Thank you.👍❤️

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[@emilygoodwin9054]

Hey Gary! I used this video for reference to plant my first vegetable garden in a few raised beds about a week ago. I’m now noticing holes in the leaves of my plants and a few caterpillars walking around. What is the most effective way to get rid of these guys and protect my plants?

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[@gregorygetchell8605]

Hi, I have some ideas for a small garden. But it gets less sunlight. It's a shady are.

[@stevemorse108]

Thank you very much we are preparing to create a vegetable garden in France this summer.

[@jennynal1]

Wow. Love this video!! I’m new to gardening and this video was just what I was looking for. So informative!!❤👏 I watched so many videos but this was the most thorough, answered all the questions I had. Thank you

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[@ToastAndJellyfish]

A wonderful video as always, Gary! Do you think you'll ever do a video on how to work with/fix clay-heavy soil? I had some beds put in over the winter and in spite of requesting a fill of 50/50 dirt and composted manure, what I got was filled-to-the-brim Kentucky clay, right out of the ground and absolutely full of grass and weed seeds. It's been a nightmare and there's been no room to really turn in any compost this year, it turns into rock when it dries and doesn't hold moisture worth a damn (cracks like a desert in the sun and strangles the roots, yet turns completely unworkable when wet). I've worked some peat moss and worm castings into the immediate areas of the plants in the hope that they'll have something of a better life and that the clay will start to break down, but a video on how to really amend it into something usable would be amazing!

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ToastAndJellyfish That is *exactly* my situation too! Except it's Oklahoma clay. Total rip off. Just like yours, there's no room for amendments, so I have accumulated a big pile in the middle of my yard from what I've scooped out to make room for organic matter and transplants. What a nightmare beginning this has been. But we growers are nothing if not tenacious! A piece of advice I got from Matt Powers, permaculture guy, is to use a broad fork or pitchfork to aerate it (mine was smelling faintly like an old dumpster at the bottom 6" or so, and I was getting sinkholes, of all things!) and keep applying compost tea or even a compost slurry to promote the beneficial microorganisms and get some organic matter down in the bottom without having to shovel half of it out first, or wait until fall to do a daikon cover crop. I've got almost all 256sq/ft forked now and I'm going to do the slurry tomorrow, followed by aerated compost tea this weekend. It seems to be working! The plants I've forked around have perked up and even started to grow larger. Leaves are getting a darker green, too. I'm hopeful! I also invested in the Deluxe Pro Kit from Boogie Brew, and have worked in 60lbs of rock dust, 20lbs of the rainbow bloom something or other and I'm applying mycorrhizae to the transplants going forward. Boy does that stuff work! I dug up the 3 sweet potatoes I had planted in-ground 2 days earlier to work some compost into the soil and loosen it a bit more, and the little plugs suddenly had roots over a foot long! I couldn't believe it. I'm really liking these products so far, and the science seems sound, although I am by no means a soilologist. I really hope at least some of this is helpful to you! If nothing else, do try forking followed by the slurry. Good luck!! 👍

[@NorskKiwi]

make sure to mulch your garden bed, for example layer your grass clippings on it. It will help organic matter to break up into it and develop the soil. I've been working with clay for a couple seasons and have been adding grass clippings, wood chips (chipped wood from cutting out apple trees), and a sprinking of compost from my pile. The soil is doing nicely this season. I just use a bit of bagged soil in the spots where I plant and my amended soil, every season it is getting better and better at retaining moisture.

[@tlgardens7598]

If you are going to live there for a long time, I would put wood chips down in a future garden area and let it work its way down to fix the soil. Here is a vid from another credible gardener who shows what wood chips did in his garden after 8 years. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3TXkpmLnNR2jpI Consider documenting your progress and sharing it via youtube. Good luck!

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I would do as mention. Cut grass and let it dry brown. Use lots of it for mulching. At the end of the season mix in any compost you made, dried grass and just get organic matter in there. Mine was all clay. Slowly but surely I changed it over. And yes amend the planting holes and that will get you buy.

[@vs3482]

I got my transplants cheaper, I have a few Amish Greenhouses paid 1.75. Price reduce. Using oregano, cilantro, Italian Parsley as animals an bugs stay away. Anything pungent. For Deer, chop up Irish Spring soap, zip lock sandwich bags w/ small holes, so the scent gets out. Deer have sensitive noses.

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V S I think there is a certain plant that deers avoid, I don’t know what it is called, but it looks like leaves, it’s a pale greenish grey and it has a soft texture

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Great and helpful video! Can't wait to try my own!

[@sarahj87]

This is fantastic! Just what I need

[@emmabyerly2969]

I started some tomatoes from seed and I have 4 growing in the same cup. Is it ok to have more than one tomato growing together in the same space?

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[@lilab151]

Hey. I’m clearing out part of my messy garden, since we moved in it was covered in weeds and rubbish. Is it a good idea to take the time to pick out all the smaller parts of dandelion roots? Even if they are deep under and will take time to sprout above ground, will the growing roots damage my plants?

[@rainaslogic5002]

I'm not sure if it will ruin the other plants but dandelion roots are eatable

[@tomgnyc]

Dandelion roots won't damage your other plants but they will compete for water and nutrients. It may be best to wait for them to emerge them pull them. It'll be easier to find the roots then.

[@IrishQuiseo]

I just started my backyard vegetable gardening and looking for ideas in taking care of plant..and i see this video so i think this is very heplful

[@travistaylor6110]

You're very knowledgeable with this! When you were talking about putting the taller plants in the back so they don't block the sunlight from the lower plants, I was like wow, I never would've thought of that. And to track the path of the sun to determine where the best area is for your plants to get optimal sunlight, dude you know what you're talking about! I gave a thumbs up so I can revert back to this when I start my garden! Nice work!👌

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Is it just me or does he sound like Joey from Friends lol 😂😅

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Thank you Gary, great start to finish video.

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[@MarkyMooMoo]

I’m a kid who just moved to a new house and I’ve never done gardening and my dad really wants me to so.. I came here to see how to get started and this is really helpful. Thank u :D

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Your videos are amazing. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas...working with one hand and filming with the other .... is so impressive. All the best to you always.

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Such a great way to feed self and preserve the environment. It's one of the important solutions to fight climate change!

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Another awesome video, thank you very much

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Instant favorite video. Thanks.

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[@impIicit]

this video was a treasure trove of valuable information! thank you. starting my first vegetable garden this upcoming summer and i am so excited!

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Thank you for sharing. 😊 Can’t wait to start my garden 🪴🥬🥕🍅🌽🌶

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This video is so helpful, so informative! It has me hyped to start my first garden. Thank you ☺️

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[@sassyblack100]

I really enjoyed your video..its definitely for a beginner like me..I just got top soil dirt added to my 36 foot garden..I can't wait..thank you 😎

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[@mmatson5030]

You gave me many wonderful tips and tricks! Thank you!

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Very informative video! Lots of great tips. Looking forward to starting my garden this year!

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[@doriskawas8721]

Thank you so much for your easy instructions! I feel I have the tools for my vedgetable/herb garden👍🥰

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Excellent job,bravo!

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Gary you are literally so awesome

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Your demonstration shows exactly what I need to do with my yard. Thank you 🙏

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The publication Fruit and Veggies 101, has great guidance when it comes to vegetable gardening

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Remarkably therapeutic to watch someone teach and demonstrate with so much passion

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Thank you for taking so much time with us--

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