It's time to start planting your garden. But there are some things you should do first to prepare the soil in order to produce healthy plants.

Editor’s note: This column is by Lovina Eicher’s 13-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. Lovina will return next week.

The garden is clearing out fast, with only peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and muskmelon still in it. I brought in a few muskmelons and want to cut them up to see how they taste.

They've turned their home garden and roadside stand into a greenhouse business that has grown rapidly since it opened a year ago.