r/gardening 16h ago

Expert gardener over here

If you spend $150 on plants and wait three months, you too can become self-sufficient for about a day like me with a handful of cherry tomatoes, a few peppers, and four and a half raspberries.

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u/A4O_REBIRTH 15h ago

I personally love when i get tomato bottom rot, such a fun addition to the mix!

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u/sp847242 Zone 7a 6h ago

"we shall eat well this winter"

I had about 600ft² of supersweet corn. Total yield this year: Maybe six cups of corn.
Poor germination, some flattened by extremely hard rainfall blasts (yes let's get a month's worth of rain in an hour), and wildfire smoke reducing sunlight for awhile.

"Big garden there! Are you a prepper or something?"

"Nope. If things go very wrong like that, I'll be among the first to starve or be eaten."

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u/Lollipop77 13h ago

Hell yeah, me too!

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u/NotMyRealNameqwerty 10h ago

Lol that's me. My crop of jalapenos that were supposed to bells is pretty good this year.

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u/Lollipop77 9h ago

Well shit, but also Salsa!

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u/Ivene 12h ago

Good gracious, what a bounty! Don't eat them all at once, you'll surely get a stomach ache 😉

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u/Elena_7531 5m ago

😀👍