I just started getting into gardening lately.  Do you garden?
I do. I find it to be very relaxing. I really enjoy seeing my products grow!
Do you have any advice for a novice?  Should I grow from seeds or just buy sprouted plants?
I think it depends if you plan to garden for small use, with mainly one crop, or have a large number of crops or flowers?
I would like to grow a variety of vegetables in a 4 foot by 8 foot raised box!
Gardening
Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use. Gardening is considered by many people to be a relaxing activity.
Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs
would just be another excuse and it would be so easy to just go back there and go up to Isla Vista Beach and just sit there all summer long, see my old friends and all my old enemies. Seeing enemies is much more interesting than seeing friends ... and I have so many enemies in Santa Barbara. Always, always interesting. But I think that ... you know, New York has so many things that really do interest me or that could interest me that for ... for my own good, I think