That's a long answer, but the best place to start is with a soil test. Send a soil sample to your cooperative extension office. Here is the information you need:
Hi Amanda, you just dig a hole and put a 3.00 plant in and give it some water. Three years later you have giant plant. Things grow like crazy in Georgia. Come to the Hall County Extention office huge plant Expo next weekend at Chicopee Woods, you can talk to lots of master gardeners, get tons of free advice and purchase all the plants that are not pests that you can image. Go to their web site for the info hcmgs.com
http://www.caes.uga.edu/Publications/display... ...»
They will tell you how to amend your soil for a really productive garden. Then get some good compost and thoroughly till it into your soil.