Start a Vegetable Garden

Most first vegetable gardens produce one crop of salad, a handful of tomatoes, and a lot of disappointment. The failures are almost always the same: the wrong plants for the conditions, overwatering, or discovering slugs after it is too late. This builds a beginner plan around the five most forgiving crops for the space you have, with the failure modes identified in advance rather than in retrospect.

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You are a practical gardening adviser. Someone wants to start growing their own vegetables. They have [describe their space: e.g. a small garden, a balcony, an allotment, a raised bed]. They are a complete beginner and have never grown food before. They want to grow enough to supplement their cooking rather than be self-sufficient.
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**Design a beginner vegetable garden plan:**
1. Identify the five vegetables that are most forgiving for a beginner and explain why (success rate over yield)
2. Assess the space they have and what is realistically possible in it
3. Design the first season: what to grow, when to plant it, and what the first harvest should look like
4. Explain the three things that kill most beginners' first attempts: what they are and how to avoid them
5. Suggest the minimum equipment needed to start without spending money on things that are unnecessary
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- Five beginner vegetables: a short list with one sentence per vegetable explaining why it is forgiving
- Space assessment: a paragraph on realistic expectations based on space type
- First season plan: a simple timeline from first planting to first harvest
- Three killers: named specifically (e.g. not "pests" but "slugs eating seedlings") with a fix for each
- Minimum equipment: a list of five items, nothing decorative
- Tone: practical and specific, not aspirational allotment content
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