1. Go to your local store and look at the seed display to pick the vegetables you want. 2. Look at the back of the package to learn about the plant and how to start it. 3 buy small packs of your favorite ones along with a bag of plotting soil or starter mix. Also buy seed pots or a tray [look for one with a plastic cover] to hold your seeds. 4. Fill the tray or pots with soil and plant the seeds to the correct depth. Plant twice as many a you want to grow or put 2seeds in each pot. We recomment pots [even last year's empty 6 packs] because you don't need to transplant seedlings from trays to pots. 5. Mark each pot or section of the tray with what you planted using eithe the packet or cut stips from milk bottles and magic mark them.

6. To water less frequently and you don't have a cover with your tray, make a simple wood frame and cover it with clear plastic. Be sure it's high enough because some plants grow tall before you are ready to transplant them to the garden. 7. if you use pots, make or buy a large tray to hold them and put your tray by a sunny window. Be sure to cover your shelf or table top with towel over plastic to protect it from water as you take care of your plants. 8. Sit back and watch them grow but don't forget to water them regularly.   Meantime prepare your garden in a sunny spot [as described above. You may want to start a second seed planting to replace the first set when it stops giving vegetables