What I mean is, do you get better crop yield in one year and a year later you don’t get much depending on how bad or good the season was?
I’m at zone 7 UK if that helps. We’ve just started to try gardening this year and the summer season has been scorching most of the time and with autumn rolling in it’s still fairly warm but not sunny.
So basically we started growing at a bad year for it then hehe? All kidding aside, the only ones that seem to thriving (so far) are the ones in pots, tatsois, some strawberries and cherry tomatoes, basils, parsleys, sage and spring onion and sunflowers to name a few but I feel like they’re surface level crops I’m guessing (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong 😅)? So the endgame of this point is to try again next year and hope the seasons are better than this year’s? We’ve got some poly tunnels or covers for the coming colder seasons and to prevent pests, but that’ll be another story lol. Shotgun approach? I like the idea haha, just might grow different things and see what grows like you said 👍🏽 we grew some courgettes some grew to a good size but some just were too small for it to be used for anything. Other than that the strawberries and cherry tomatoes and others are doing fine.
I read about leeks the other day, said they grow wild in your part of the world, I could be wrong though.
If it can grow wild, it increases the chances of the plant thriving in a garden. Could look into what was traditionally grown in your area and start there maybe
Could try growing leeks now that you’ve mentioned it, apparently potatoes are easy to grow? They some of our store bought potatoes are growing roots as we speak 😅 probably not the same thing but you get the idea
It is the same thing! The first time I grew potatoes, the neighbor saw I was building a garden, so he gave me some eyed out root growing potatoes he bought at a market and had been growing under his cabinet.
I looked up how to plant them, and did, and they grew into plants. A woodchuck came in at ate up most of my garden that year, but he didn’t touch the potatoes! It was a harvest of potatoes!
Totally the same thing, you got it :)
Probably too late to grow some potatoes now but I’ve got that listed for next year’s crop 🤘🏽 that damned Woodchuck 😅