Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hi and welcome and hey we all were new so ask away.
I hate to say it but best bet, make a pot of tea/coffee, bake a nice something and invite your mom in law over. Get some nice big stakes (they come in big bundles and last forever and won't hide in the grass if you don't mow right away) from the hardware store not little garden ones but the ones they use for marking out stuff and a permanent marker to write down the names of what she knows is growing in there.
Grab a mug of coffee or whatever and have her show you around the yard, it sounds like she knows it well. Ask her what her plans for it were, she may have had some great ideas that you might be able to adapt to what you want. She might also know where it doesn't drain quite right, where the sheltered you can push your limits spot is and all those other quirks that a garden has. It may help with your plans and it is always nice to have some successes right away.
Who knows she may even help you weed....
Cheers and happy spring
Bina

--- In Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com, "M" <malloryoneal04@...> wrote:
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> I am ALL newbie. Gardening has never been my "thing", just remember that. lol
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> I need and want to go out to the garden and do some weeding. Its been neglected for about 4 years or so. I am all amped up for planting and growing.... but the weeding it out scares me! My MIL says that some things might still be surviving back there, (walking onions was one she mentioned specifically) but I can't tell a plant from a weed. *blush* I would like to get out there and weed if I ever get a dry day this week, but is there anything I should know first? Is there some secret to being able to tell the difference even if I'm not familiar with plants?
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> I wish I could just go back there and rip it all out and start fresh! To me it seems so much easier! LOL
> -Mallory from Ohio
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