I seem to have a brown thumb; but my husband has an organic garden. We’re old & don’t raise a whole lot of anything. The squash is beginning to come in; we have had blackberries, blueberries, strawberries - all we could eat.
I freeze a little bit of stuff, but not a whole lot. - Going overboard raising things tends to create a stress that we don’t need at our age.
“We’re old & don’t raise a whole lot of anything. Going overboard raising things tends to create a stress that we don’t need at our age.”
It is 103 degrees outside here and I am 81. There is no way I could spend time in that heat growing food. I can do it if I start in the early spring and have done it about a year ago, growing food plants from seed. I had to prove to myself I could do that, and I did after trial and error the year before that one.
I think I will buy plants next spring, not grow them from seed, but then I think about the ones I did grow from seed, and think I should do it that way, just not as many.
Anyway, I understand your comment about age, it does make a difference.
Hubby and I are senior citizens too. While we are still pretty active and able, we are getting things like fruit trees and berry bushes and things that basically don’t have to be planted every year, since we know that eventually we’ll be wanting/needing to slow down a bit.
Whatever we do grow has got to be better for us than what’s at the grocery. We like to think of our gardens as the cheapest source of “organic” produce. LOL