How to plant a vegetable garden?

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OK, I know this sounds stupid, I'm relatively young and I want to plant a vegetable garden this year. My question is how should I do this? I am going to plant corn, tomatos, peppers, 3 kinds of potatos, 2 kinds of lettuce and a few other things. So, do I just till up one large bed for all of these? Or should I make a couple of smaller beds? We have a large yard (1.5 acres), so I would like to do this so that everything will grow as best as possible. Also, where do I lay down the black stuff to keep out the weeds at? Won't that keep the vegetables from growing? Is there any tips to help keep weeding minimal. I'm new at this and really would like it to turn out nice, so any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!
 
Hi, I start doing this last year and it turned out really nice. We had a lot of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants in a small yard.
For tomatoes, peppers, corn you have to do small beds.
For lettuce you just have to level the dust and then make little row beds like 1/2 inch inside of dust and then cover them . Make sure you water them every evening in their first week, and then every 2 days. Not too much water but enough. DON`T water them during the day, when it`s sunny!
Good luck!
 
Go to your local library and check out the book Square Foot Gardening. Space is used most economically with minimal weeding and easy watering.
 
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