You will enjoy backyard gardening if you wish to have fresh fruits and vegetables at your disposal.
There is nothing that tastes better than fresh tomatoes on salad or an entire salad grown from your own garden.
A wide variety of information is available online, in magazines and in gardening books to help you grow a healthy, luscious garden.
Here are some tips to get you started:

• To help measure in the garden, take a long-handled garden tool like a shovel and mark on its handle using a tape measure.
  Using a permanent marker, mark out the feet and inches on its handle and when a specific distance is required for planting, you'll have a handy measuring device close at hand.
  
• Select perennials to reduce the amount of care your garden requires.
  Plants that return annually usually require a minimum of weeding and pruning.
  Edible perennials, such as sorrel, rhubarb, and asparagus can provide you with an excellent salad addition without causing you too much additional work.
  
• Choose varieties that don't require processing in order to keep if you are planting vegetables.
  For example, sweet potatoes and onions will keep for months as long as they are kept cool and dry--without any additional work on your part--reducing the amount of time you have to spend after harvesting.
  
• A great tip for growing a fantastic garden is to be realistic.
  While browsing the glossy packages of seeds are very appealing, many of these plants only grow in specific climates.
  Be realistic to what grows in your area and do not plant items that will not grow well where you live.
  It can be very disappointing to plant a backyard garden and then have almost no vegetables and fruits to harvest from it
• A traditional hanging basket is made of wire and lined with moss.
  You can create a spectacular display by not only planting in the basket itself, but by inserting hanging plants in the gaps in the wire mesh.
  The mesh and surrounding moss with ensure that the plants stay secure.
  
• To get rid of the snails plaguing your garden, set an open container of beer on its side where you usually find them.
  The snails will be drawn to the scent of the beer and trap themselves.
  Try adding a little bit of brewer's yeast to the can if you 'd like.
  Doing so will make this trap even more effective.
  
• If you want to be successful without the need for chemicals, be sure to test your soil before you plant your garden.
  Home testing kits are readily available at home improvement stores and can tell you the pH of your soil, which indicates the likelihood of plant survival.
  A vegetable garden requires a pH of about 6.
  5; if your soil is off, you can add a supplement to the soil before your plants start to die.
  

As noted earlier, the art of gardening means that your dining table can have tasty fresh fruits and vegetables to eat.
Nothing is more satisfying than serving fresh fruits and vegetables that you grew in your own backyard garden.
This is a more natural and cheaper way of getting your food.
Apply these guidelines in order to get the most out of your backyard gardening.