PLANT SLIDING STILL:
I love it when I end up with those volunteers from a pile. One year, at my old place I had the best tomatoes come up volunteer from a pile of old plants I didn’t get around to tossing in the “official” compost. I saved some seed but the resulting fruit wasn’t on par with the volunteers. There were 3 volunteer tomato plants, can’t recall what I thought they were but I’d planted a lot of heirlooms the year before. Back then I put out 40-50 tomatoes/season, spring and fall. We all liked tomatoes and I was young enough to keep up. I miss that. Probably my most disliked thing about aging is not being able to go at my food growing like I did back then.
PLANT SLIDING STILL:
Probably my most disliked thing about aging is not being able to go at my food growing like I did back then.
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Ha. I didn’t really start until I retired. Any effort I made always ended up with dead plants. My daughter gave me a book on sq. foot gardening. So I tried out a 3x8 raised bed that I talked hubby into building.
I convinced him to follow the instructions to the letter-he laughed and snickered the entire time. Every single thing I planted turned out great. He has now converted all his gardens to raised beds and added more even for his gardens.
He also built me several more-I now have 200 sq. ft. I have never been able to do as much as I would like to cause I started too late. But I identify with what you said. So many things I used to be able to do—just too old to cut the mustard now. LOL