[quote name='Dkellar']Lowe's paint sucks. I've talked to professional painters and most say go with Home Depot paints. We used dark colors here and we had white walls (dark green and a dark red). Without the gray primer, it would of taken 3+ coats and still have spots where it was uneven. With the gray primer, just 1 coat covered almost everything and the color turned out fantastic.
About the gardening, I plan on planting green beans, corn, scallions, possibly tomatoes, maybe some broccolis though I don't know if it will do well, and maybe some other things. Just curious if you had any tips and/or advice. I plan on making a section of the yard just for this said garden and have a fence around it some Mr. Phalen (our dog) doesn't decide he wants to eat something. We have terrible red clay that is filled with rock and shit so I don't know how well I could grow stuff in that so I'm going to dig 2-3 feet down in the area where I want the garden and then fill it with soil and such.[/quote]
we've had good experiences with Lowe's paint. Home Depot has Behr paint which is supposedly good but is also very expensive. we have pigment-rich colors in the 3 rooms we've already painted and so we went with them again. i've used different primers before and have had mixed results, so we figured we'd just go with whats been working thus far.
most of those veggies aren't super picky about soil. if you like califlower, it will grow almost anywhere. i would start the seeds in plastic planters, the ones that are meant for starting seeds. i'd also get your soil tested to see if you need to add any nutrients to it. as long as you turn over the soil about 2' down and add in some peat, you should be fine. or, you can add compost. that works well too. from my experience, the most important things are the light and the water. make sure things don't roast in the sun and make sure you don't over water or you'll get root rot. start things in the starter planters for about 8-10 weeks then after Mother's Day, plant them in the ground. corn might be different, i don't have any experience with it. scallions usually do better in a pot then in the ground, i dunno why. i also prefer to do tomatos in large pots. not only are they easy to contain/ tie up, there are several fungi ruin tomato plants. if they are present in your area, your plants will start to turn brown from the bottom up, right before the fruit are ready to be picked, and you'll lose the crop. my favorite varieties of tomato are roma and grape. they produce a lot of fruit. oh yeah, cucumbers and zucchini also seem to grow well most anywhere.