So you are going to start your first vegetable garden.
You need to decide where to put it and how big it will be.
Easy decisions for the most part, the criteria for location can be simple.
First consider that if this is your first garden maybe you should start out small to test the water so to speak.
You can get pretty frustrated to lay out a large plot of land for your garden only to find it's more work than you wanted.
A small plot will let you get a feel for growing vegetables and kind of practice the vegetable garden thing.
You can learn easier on a small scale and figure out which vegetables will grow the best for you.
For it's location try to have it where it will get the most sun.
You have to water it so have a source of water near by.
You can use a hose to get the water to your garden, you don't want to haul buckets of water to it.
Your soil can be the most important ingredient to growing your vegetables.
If you want you can get a test kit from a garden center so you can test the soil yourself.
It will tell you what you need to do to get your soil ready.
Lots of organic material is always a good thing for gardens and you can buy bags of it from garden centers or compost your own stuff.
Composting is a good way to make use of your household scraps and trimmings from around the house.