For additional information to get your garden going, check your local library or bookstore for the following books and don't forget your local county extension:

1. Ball, Jeff. "Jeff Ball's 60-Minute Garden". Rodale Press, 1985.

2. Ball, Jeff. "The Self-Sufficient Suburban Gardener". Rodale Press, 1983. While I wouldn't use it, many suburbs may not allow Jeff's Phase #5 anyway.

3. Bartholomew, Mel. "Square Foot Gardening". Rodale Press, 1981.

4. Ernst, Ruth Shaw. "The Naturalist's Garden". Rodale press, 1987.

5. Hunt, Marjorie. "High-Yield Gardening". Rodale Press, 1986.

Also, the following were very useful information sources when putting this together:

6. Thomas, Robert B. "The Old Farmer's Almanac".

7. Flower Time Horticultural Information Center. 'Starting Vegetables From Seed'.