Tuckersmom said: ... As a new gardener in an aging body, I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.
What? NOT making your very first garden plan a 10-year project for a team of five vigorous young body-builders?
You might be the first new gardener EVER to start reasonably with something manageable.
Please keep letting us know how it goes! I'm kind of expecting that that some little-known Garden Tooth Fairy will visit you in the night and suddenly your Year Two Plan will include the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or 500 wintersowing jugs or breeding hybrid oak trees or planting thousands of bulbs ...