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!
Oh, well that sounds great! You can add ornamental foliage to your garden, or root and leaf vegetables, herbs or fruits. Great for eating and medicinal uses.
What plant would be good for medicinal use?  I am quite curious!
Cottage garden
The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. English in origin, it depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure. Homely and functional gardens connected to working-class cottages go back centuries, but their stylized reinvention occurred in 1870s England, as a reaction to the more structured, rigorously maintained estate gardens with their formal designs and mass plantings of greenhouse annuals.
The earliest cottage gardens were more
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