RickCorey said:Liza,
You're very welcome ... but I should have preceded each long post with something like: "here's something for you to read during the winter when there's nothing to do in the garden except plan and think".
I think the short form would be:
if you can get compost or soil amendments into your bed before planting, that's a very good thing.
You're probably smart to start with seedling plants - if someone is selling them now, it's probably a fairly good time to plant them, now. There's always next year to try a few rows of seeds and see what comes up (it's mainly an issue of keeping them moist, and keeping them from being eaten until they're big enough to survive a few bites).
If your soil is already fairly fertile, you might want to consider running a narrow walking path down the middle of your 8x8 bed, and treat the two halves as two wide rows to be planted fairly thickly, but never walked on.
, bokchoy is my favorite vegetable.. Rows or squarefoot gardening- i really have not thought about it because the picture i have in mind is just digging a hole and plant, but i already thought of leaving some walk space in between each 2 rows of plants, but that's a good point to know too, which is better, squarefoot gardening or just rows. I see raised beds all over the internet too, but that's too much expenses for me to buy wood or raised beds and stuff so mine is just direct to the ground planting. Also question about weeding, do you water first then spray weeds that are starting to come out with round up? or Round up spary first before watering? And about the trellis and taller plants, i thought i would put it to where it will start shading the vegetables by 2 in the afternoon for plants that likes 6 hours of sun, and place another trellis where it will start shading leafy veggies that are happy with 4 hours of sun.. And no tomatoes.. and no cucumbers too, because i have wonderful neighbor that kepps on giving us tomatoes and cucmbers from his backyard, so i thought, i will plant somethings he doesn't have so i can give him too, when i harvest. I know he is the right person to ask about gardening but he is always gone too, i wisdh i could go see his vegetable garden in his backyard but i don't see him that much. Most of the time, he just leave a bag of tomatoes and stuff hanging on my maindoor door knob.. And yes, i want to just plant seedlings, don't know about being smart but main reason is i will be impatient waiting for the seeds to germinate 
And i have the Super soil enrich compost, so i just pour this compost on top of the garden bed and start mixing it with the soil? or do i put some in the hole also before placing a plant when planting?
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