I'm hoping when I semi retire I can have time to do stuff like this again. My time is limited to weekends mostly now, and a garden requires work 7 days a week if you really want it to produce. When I was growing up, we always had about an acre or two in garden. After I got married, I had a small spot a few times with a few things, nothing like what I grew up with. The last few years, we haven't cooked much anyway, it's been just as cheap to get something from the cafes in town. When our last freezer went out, we lost hundreds of dollars of food that we had bought and put up, but had seldom eaten anymore. I decided enough, I wasn't going through the trouble if we weren't going to use it, so we never bought another freezer.
I'd love to have some fresh hot peppers and tomatoes sometimes. Maybe in a couple of years, I can try growing stuff again. For now though, it's grass, and it grows itself.....
