patandchickens
Deeply Rooted
Hi, welcome to TEG! 
The first thing I'd suggest is trying to improve your soil as much as possible. The better your soil is, the easier and more productive your gardening will be. Do the jar test to figure out what its composition is like (clayey, sandy, loamy, what?), then add a bunch of organic matter and work on removing all perennial weed roots. A pH or nutrient test is useful (or anyhow entertaining) to some, but not absolutely essential in most cases.
Then, I'd suggest concentrating on a small number of easy crops, no larger an area of garden than you can EASILY keep weeded etc during the worst of the summer season.
IMHO the easiest and most rewarding crops are lettuce (start from seed, either indoors under lights or later outdoors), tomatoes (start under lights indoors, or buy transplants from garden center, get an early variety or a cherry tomato if you had trouble last year) and beans (direct-sow a week or so after your last frost of the year). So I would suggest maybe making those the main part of your garden. Of course you can also try a *little* bit of a couple of other things that particularly interest you if you want... but I would advise against being too ambitious if you are prone to discouragement.
Good luck, have fun,
Pat
The first thing I'd suggest is trying to improve your soil as much as possible. The better your soil is, the easier and more productive your gardening will be. Do the jar test to figure out what its composition is like (clayey, sandy, loamy, what?), then add a bunch of organic matter and work on removing all perennial weed roots. A pH or nutrient test is useful (or anyhow entertaining) to some, but not absolutely essential in most cases.
Then, I'd suggest concentrating on a small number of easy crops, no larger an area of garden than you can EASILY keep weeded etc during the worst of the summer season.
IMHO the easiest and most rewarding crops are lettuce (start from seed, either indoors under lights or later outdoors), tomatoes (start under lights indoors, or buy transplants from garden center, get an early variety or a cherry tomato if you had trouble last year) and beans (direct-sow a week or so after your last frost of the year). So I would suggest maybe making those the main part of your garden. Of course you can also try a *little* bit of a couple of other things that particularly interest you if you want... but I would advise against being too ambitious if you are prone to discouragement.
Good luck, have fun,
Pat
