Hi everyone! I'm here asking for guidance and suggestions.

This is my first ever Reddit post, so please bear with me.

I live in Italy, and I've finally moved into a house where l'm allowed to have a garden! I've only ever grown indoor plants before, but they made me so happy that I really want to grow a real vegetable garden now that spring is almost here.

I'm currently traveling for work, so I drew this poorly drawn map from memory on a bumpy train. I won't be home to fact check myself for a while, so everything is scuffed, proportions are likely off, I might be forgetting important details, and the only accurate info I'm sure about is the compass I left in the top right corner, but it should still give an idea of the general layout of the area, and I'd like to gain knowledge and be ready before I return home.

Now that I can, I would like to ask someone more experienced than me what to do with all this. What vegetables are fit for the Italian climate? I really like both vegetables and herbs (this last one is what I had indoor), where should I plant what? Any immediate first steps I should take once I get back home?

I hope that I left enough details in the drawing to explain the situation, but I will answer pretty much any question to provide more context if needed.

Thank you so much to anyone who takes the time to help a nervous beginner!

by SalieriRain

1 Comment

  1. EmploymentSudden4184

    Wow exciting!!! I also love indoor plants and just started gardening a couple years ago after moving to a new place. I don’t know what grows in Italy, but there are often lots of native flowering plants that make shaded areas look nice. Other non-native shade plants that do well for me in US New England are Hostas, Astilbe and bleeding hearts (really pretty), and Heuchera. For partial shade areas, I have still had daffodils, tulips, and poppies do well for me. For decorative plants, I found that you don’t really need to follow spacing rules and you can pack them in.

    For the sunniest area, as a beginner, my best plants were beans (I prefer pole beans), tomatoes, collard greens, sunflowers, zinnias, and marigolds.

    Have fun!!!!