How do you recover when the vegetable garden that promised so much, delivers so little.
Most people GROWING THEIR OWN FOOD in our commUNITY’S do it as a hobby or as part of a healthier lifestyle. The reward for your effort is fresh produce that might supplement a GROCERY SHOP a couple of times a week. Making a difference to your weekly grocery bill is now more crucial than ever before
People all over the world grow their own food for survival. But in DEVELOPED COUNTIRES most of the population DO NOT GROW THEIR OWN. This is a TRAGEDY and LOST RELIANCE/AUTONOMY/SKILLS and SELF PRESERVATION. Even a generation or so ago in your own heritage, your GRANDPARENTS GREWT THEIR OWN and there was no room for failed crops. What you didn’t grow you didn’t eat.
In our modern society if the veg you plant fails, it’s not going to stop you eating vegetables! It’s merely something you would prefer to avoid as you spent time, money, and effort planting them. Sending you back to the SHOPS for food and nourishment. This did not happen BACK IN THE DAY.
Our FORE PARENTS had NO CHOICE but to GROW AGAIN and LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES via PRACTICAL FAILS and SHARED EXPERIENCES between other families and garden’s or they didn’t eat.
NOWERDAYS I sight many people TRYING TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD which is so wonderful. And with the advent of the INTERNET and endless amounts of information, coupled with trends and fashion, A LOT of the SMALL BUT IMPORTANT information is NOT COVERED or EXPLAINED IN DETAIL allowing many of us to PREMATURELY FAIL.
In fact many CELEBRITY GARDENERS and COMMERCIAL INFORMATION OUTLETS do not even really give you a chance as SUCCESSION, again with lack of important information, the basics, plant physiology, terrestrial morphology, soil life etc, but instead concentrate on SELLING A PRODUCT or getting MORE VIEWS and GIVING JUST ENOUGH INFORMATION TO GET YOU AND YOUR GARDEN INTO TROUBLE, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO GET YOU OUT. Leaving a lot of wi to either GIVE UP GARDENING or even worse RESENT GARDENING as a LOSS.
TODAY we have the privilege of things going wrong. This doesn’t mean THE FAMILY DOESN’T EAT TONIGHT any longer with VEG AVAILABLE ENMASS, allowing us to see OUR MISTAKES, problems, or a completely failed crop as A COST ON THE WAY TO GETTING THINGS RIGHT. This is where going to a TRAINED HORTICULTURALIST and LEARNING PAYS in dividends and CROPS/FOOD/SUCCESSION.
Don’t let failures discourage you. Focus on the upside of the things you get wrong instead of obsessing about your lack of success, and your failures will go from BEING A DISASTER to A PRECIOUS OPPORTUNITY OF GROWTH AND LEARNING. You have learned something new about HOW TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW!
You won’t advance in your efforts to grow more of your own food if you’re obsessed with getting things right every time. So the best way to accomplish more is to set out to be as open to wrong as often as you can afford to be. DO NOT BE AFRAID.
Blessed LOVE AND LIFE RAS MARK SUBURBAN FARMER.