lori on Nostr: Anyway my advice is if you want to try growing vegetables and the internet makes it ...
Anyway my advice is if you want to try growing vegetables and the internet makes it seem too complicated for you, just try it. It's not even that expensive to try out, every discount store has ten thousand bags of potting soil and cheap pots/planters right now and a lot of plants will do just fine in those. Fuck you can convert big tote bins into planters easily. You don't have to go full raised bed permanent structure your first try.
But I promise it's not that hard to grow most things. Go online and find a planting calendar for your area, that's 90% of the external research you need. Because you mostly want to make sure you aren't gonna plant stuff too early or too late and get hit by frost. But there's plenty of websites that will tell you when to plant what. You can then buy the plants already started (you don't have to get into seedlings day one) and put them in the dirt, and water them, and make sure they have sun, and most of the time you'll end up with something you can eat at the end. Every old person in my area grows vegetables and has never once worried about the specific chemical makeup of their soil or perfectly controlling the moisture of the soil down to the exact percent. They put their tomatoes in dirt and water them and then pick the tomatoes later.
But I promise it's not that hard to grow most things. Go online and find a planting calendar for your area, that's 90% of the external research you need. Because you mostly want to make sure you aren't gonna plant stuff too early or too late and get hit by frost. But there's plenty of websites that will tell you when to plant what. You can then buy the plants already started (you don't have to get into seedlings day one) and put them in the dirt, and water them, and make sure they have sun, and most of the time you'll end up with something you can eat at the end. Every old person in my area grows vegetables and has never once worried about the specific chemical makeup of their soil or perfectly controlling the moisture of the soil down to the exact percent. They put their tomatoes in dirt and water them and then pick the tomatoes later.