I grow heirloom veggies for the most part. I have around 30 different types of tomatoes, 8 types of cucumbers, 6 summer squash, 2 different pumpkins, watermelon, 2 types of cantaloupe, a honeydew, about 10 types of peppers from sweet to Habenero, 3 kinds of eggplant, 2 kinds of groundcherries, butternut squash, and just about every herb there is.
I grow multiple plants of each variety, so I produce about 10 times what my family eats. At least.
That’s my wife’s compulsiveness at work. She is prone to pushing everything waaay beyond necessary.
But it’s okay. She started a cottage nursery during Covid. She had been growing things from seed for a few years, and giving surplus plants away to family and friends, and during Covid, she decided to go Bold. So for our 3rd year now, we’ve grown about 2,500 plants (from seed), and sold most of them out of our driveway. We also donate around 100 plants (as many as we can!). There’s a church in town with a big garden that they use to grow food to provide to poor people, and homeless people. We grow plants for them, and help them plant them, and harvest them. There’s a food kitchen that has a garden, and a couple of schools/youth programs around that we also give plants to. Our surplus produce we give to another food closet in town. So it’s all good. It’s a lot of work, and more than I would like to do (although I enjoy gardening), but I console myself with the knowledge we are helping a lot of people. That’s cool.
This year was the best for the plants. The weather was perfect all Spring.
The Dodgers have about 2 pitchers right now. Everyone is DL or underperforming, so the Giants are catching the Ds at a good time, looks like.
