This year I have been pushing you create your own vegetable garden. If you haven't yet put in a fall vegetable garden, you need to hurry and do so. Here is what you need to get started for fast results:

1. Choose an area of the yard in full sun and recreate a 10' X 10' bed.
2. Remove the grass and invest in a pickup load of rich landscape soil.
3. Purchase the biggest vegetable you can find either in 5" or 1 gallon size pots.
4. Space the plants leaving them plenty of room for growth, if they are too close there are a greater chance of bugs and disease.
5. Label each row with the name of each variety, you can go to a yard sale, buy some old forks, and place the see package into the fork. Place the fork at the beginning of the row.
6. Only fertilize your new plants organically, do not put synthetic chemicals on anything you eat, we already have enough chemicals in the foods we buy at the stores.
7. Keep soil moist but not soggy wet.
8. If bugs occur, spray with all natural Pyrethrin.

Please consider growing a vegetable garden. Not only is a good mental stress reliever, the vegetables will taste far better than the ones you buy at the stores. At our Sorrento nursery, you may also want to pick up a $3 dollar booklet called "vegetables naturally" which has a lot of natural tonics you can use.