We all have our failures as gardeners, but if you get even one vegetable from your efforts, you’ve turned your labor into food—sustenance for one meal for one person. That’s worth something in the grand scheme of things. I hope you will try again next year.
I totally agree with you. And I certainly knew this would be a great challenge. I hope next year to find a place where I can build a raised bed. That would be quite help.
I also just got some great books to read to learn more.
What do you garden and where at? I am definitely interested in learning more, in particular about different regions of the country and how they are for food growing.
This year, I’ve grown 5 varieties of tomatoes, chard, pole beans, cucumbers, winter squash, onions, butterhead lettuce, radishes, and nasturtiums (which are edible). I tried to grow peas, but the bunnies got them. In the flowerbed, I grow herbs, eggplant, cantaloupe, 2 varieties of watermelon, and 2 varieties of peppers. I also have blueberry bushes, a planter with some strawberry plants, and a grapevine that isn’t producing much of anything yet.
I garden in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and the chief problem here is all manner of nasty insects. Also bunnies. Damp spells produce mold and mosquitoes.
Raised beds are great. Except for the melons, eggplant, and peppers (and two potted tomato plants), I grow all of my vegetables in a 10×10 plot, raised 1 foot from ground level.
