i watered my garden every single day it didnāt rain last summer. no matter how tired i was, i had to go trundle around with the hose and the watering can. because i didnāt use pesticides, i lost all my pumpkins and squashes to a squash borer. my carrots didnāt really amount to much. all my watermelons died on the vine, tiny. my grape vine still hasnāt fruited. my herbs pretty much universally croaked. my lettuces looked great but were so bitter. i didnāt harvest my cabbages in time and only got to eat oneāthe slugs got the rest. i planted a bunch of peppers and got almost nothing from them, just weird little gnarled green fists.
then i got an absolutely absurd amount of cucumbers and turned every single jar in my house into a pickle container. iām still working my way through the six gallon freezer bags of frozen beefsteak tomatoes that august produced.
your garden will produce way less of a lot of stuff you want and way more of some stuff youāre not prepared to consume or preserve. you have to water, to weed, to think about sun exposure, to debate about pesticides.
i love gardening! itās great, it keeps you grounded, it feels wonderful to materially contribute to the local ecosystem, to see the wasps and spiders and bees and butterflies, and fresh tomatoes are delicious! but itās SO MUCH MORE WORK THAN A LAWN.
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