@Walter1
Tell me, what sort of gardening are you interested in? Gardening goes from vegetables, landscape plants, hardy plants, tropical plants, propagation, and everything in between. Certainly your location and thus growing conditions will play a part. By the way, please take a moment to go into your "Profile" and list your city/state, or at a minimum, your USDA zone. Are you physically fit and how much time do you have to dedicate to plants?