(bright upbeat music) >>We are in the midst of starting a new garden bed, and you wanna make sure it'll be prosperous for whatever you decide to grow.

You want to start with a good gardening base.

Now, this is a new space for me.

So what I've done is I've cleaned out as much as I can.

As you can see, there are still rocks and different type of twigs.

So you want to try to get out as much as you can.

You may never get everything out, but get as much as you can out.

Make it easy and fun.

Get the kids out and help you.

So what we're gonna do is refurbish this soil.

And what I mean by that is we're gonna take our new soil and turn it into great soil.

And I like to take what I have and make it work.

So what I do is I use old soil from last year and I have some new plain old gardening potting soil, whatever you can afford or whatever you have.

And we're simply gonna pour it in.

So that's our old soil from last year.

It's only been used once.

It's still full of nutrients.

Look at that, it looks different already, right?

And then we're gonna take a little bit of our new soil, and I just like to take my little garden rake and mix it in a little bit.

So once you've got everything mixed in together, and you've introduced your old soil and your new soil to your current garden soil, we want to use mother nature's water and get it nice and moist and ready for planting your seeds.

(hammer tapping) I put several nails in around the bed and you simply just take you some regular string, wrap it around your nail, like so.

And you have sections that you can plant different things in.

Today, I'm gonna be doing some cherry tomatoes and some beef steak tomatoes, and I simply just use my finger and make a little indention, like so.

And sometimes you plant extras, so you're not waiting around for a seed that may not germinate, and you simply pop in a couple of seeds per space.

And what we're gonna do is take our strongest plants, and those are the ones that we're gonna save.

And we'll thin out the others.

Gently cover it over, give it a little pressing, not a packing, just a little pressing.

And you've started your cherry tomatoes.

And remember, don't forget to label.

So I'm gonna sit this here for now, and I'll come back out here and I can use popsicle sticks or plastic spoons of forks and make labels.

And we're gonna do our beef steak.

Make a few indentions, get you a couple of seeds.

And there you have it, your beef steaks.

So when starting your new garden, have fun with it.

Don't overthink it.

Plant what you love to eat.

Get people involved.

Share the experience and remember to live, love, laugh, grow stuff and eat it.