I love to grow my own vegetables. Well. Hm. Honestly? I like the idea of growing my own vegetables. The reality is less inspiring.
I’ve had several attempts at veggie plots. It’s fun. For a while. Before the drought. Or the cabbage moths. Or the birds.
I love putting in all the new seedlings and watching them start to grow.
A garden of hopeful aspiration.
It gets pretty exciting when the flowers – that you just know are going to turn into something very edible eventually – start appearing.
Then, for some reason, it always goes wrong.
If I have a green thumb, it’s khaki.
Bugs.
Caterpillar hunting.
Diseases.
Something went wrong.
Lack of water/nutrients/mulching/some unknown factor that I’m supposed to know about but don’t.
I’m pretty sure carrots are not supposed to look like that.
Sigh.
I did at least get some produce this year. Some of my plants were actually thriving before nature interceded.
A few are still hanging in there.
Would anyone like a celery stick?
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Whoa. Traumatized carrot! But I’m relieved someone else out there resents growing salad for bugs.
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Elly, I’m too scared to eat that carrot in case its consumption turns my life into some sort of alien horror story.
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Haha, I have not attempted a garden for fear my luck would turn out like yours! Glad you did get a few good crops! 🙂
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I think I got enough to make it feel worthwhile. The tomatoes were the most disappointing. I’d had dreams of sauces and chutneys and in the end there was barely enough for a bowl of pasta Napolitano. But I have piles of celery sticks to look forward to.
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This is why I stick to flowers and herbs. I tried patio tomatoes twice and it was a horrid failure both times.
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I seem to get just enough success to forget the trauma of infected tomatoes and mutant carrots so I get sucked in each time thinking it will work.
I am a notorious flower killer. The rest of my garden is succulents, the zombies of the plant world. Just can’t kill those suckers.
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I think it’s admirable that you keep trying. 🙂
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Can really relate to this. is another mea culpa coming on? Nope.
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Your carrots are a work of Art. I don’t know the first thing about plants, but I wish you luck.
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