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Because you can *learn* to have a green thumb.
Read more about it from Bonnie Plants.
For example, corn makes good climbing material for peas and beans, while the wide leaves of squash hide all of the roots from getting too much sun. This graphic's from Anglian Home.
The trowel will be your main workhorse, but the transplanter (the one with the measuring marks on it) will make all the difference when you need to measure the right size holes for different plants, and the cultivator will loosen soils that end up packed over time. And gloves, of course, keep your hands clean and protect them from spiky thorns. (These are just starters of course; if you're looking at a big project, you'll definitely need more/different tools!)
Get the set of three tools for $15.77 and the gloves for $9.97, both on Amazon.
You'll still want to wipe them down and make sure they're dry to avoid rust, of course. From One Good Thing By Jillee.
They'll definitely give your seedlings a little more room to grow than an eggshell, but either way works. Get a pack with 144 cells (24 trays with six cells each) on Amazon for $7.14.
Always snip them between two sets of leaves, as close as possible to the bottom set. Make sure to leave at least two or three layers of leaves on your plant, though! This encourages your plant to send out more leaves. Read more on The Thrifty Groove and Martha Stewart.
Get a highly-rated set of garden shears on Amazon for $9.98.
This goes especially for basil and mint! If they put their plant energy into flowers and seeds, they'll have less of it to make leaves. Read more on Gardening Know How, Chokri Home and Garden, and Preparedness Mama.
Plants like a good breakfast, too! You can also water in the late afternoon, but that's second-best. From Country Living and Gardening Know How.
In your dream garden, you'd get almost two inches of rain in weekly afternoon showers, but we know that never happens. Read more on Gardening Know How, because it's a little more complicated than that; containers may even need daily waterings, depending on where you live.
Get a highly-rated heavy-duty watering nozzle on Amazon for $15.99; it'll attach to your hose for easy watering.
The Honeybee Conservancy has everything you need to know about mason bees. Then you can get a little house for them (each individual tube could be the home of one bee!) on Amazon for $23.91.
Apparently it really does work.
Weeding's annoying, but if you devote a few minutes a day to it, or try to do it at least once a week, you can catch the weeds when they're young, and it'll be easier to pull them up.
But if you're too busy for that (or TBH just lazy), this weeder pulls even the toughest weeds out by the root, and has five-star reviews from over 2,600 people; get it on Amazon for $39.15.
You literally tear them up into a bucket filled with non-chlorinated water, cover to keep mosquitos out, and let it steep! Get the full directions from The Old Farmer's Almanac.
This'll sound familiar, because fertilizers also generally give an "NPK" number — nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium — the same info you're looking at in a soil test. But this is all about getting even more of those important nutrients to your platns.
Unfortunately there's not an easy "tip" for this one; you just have to do your research and pay attention to the information about your seeds or plants when you buy 'em. There are several types of fertilizers out there; read more about it on Fine Gardening, Bonnie Plants, and Zone 9 Garden.
If you love gardening charts, here's a bunch more.