**When you are starting a new vegetable garden for the first time just remember to keep it small and simple.**

Setting up a new vegetable garden can take a lot of time and energy so if your time is pretty limited go easy on yourself. I recommend setting up little vegetables gardens near outside taps or faucets

so they are easy to water. Watering and sometimes weeding are the big things with vegetable gardening so you need time for them. Weeding not so much but watering, yes.

So if you want a practice run to try out vegetable gardening before you start your new vegetable garden.

Just drop a few squash and pumpkin seeds near an outside tap on the south side of your house. And train the plants to grow around your house, and you will see how easy some vegetables are to grow. To try another vegetable plant try zucchini but only plant one or two seeds as some plants produce heaps of vegetables. Doing this will give you a taste of vegetable gardening without too much digging. Just a bit further away from the outside tap within hose reach plant a cherry tomato bush and some green pepper bushes.

If you want to try something else plant your favorite climbing bean under the rainwater down pipe from the roof and let it climb up the down pipe.

Another plant I like to grow is cucumbers but they need support so if you have a little old dead tree in your lawn try planting cucumbers so they can grow all over the tree. If the tree has too many branches cut some off. Or you can set up an 'A' frame with wire coiled around the outside and let the cucumbers grow all over that. Now you have cucumbers. So your new vegetable garden doesn’t have to be very elaborate.

Check out our Vegetable Gardening page and see what you think, but now is the time to stop thinking and just throw a few seeds around the house to see what happens.