My garden is doing fairly well, I would say. I wish some things were bigger (there are supposed to be some carrots in the waaaay back), and some things are certainly bigger than I expected (note the 3u1/2 foot tall peas in the foreground), but all in all, I think I've learned the best way to care for a garden is not to care for it. Excluding weeding and the occasional nudge to a pea plant towards a twine support, it seems like things grow the most when you don't bother them at all.Then there's just weird stuff that happens. Sometimes plants won't grow for a few weeks at a time before experiencing growth spurts. Okay, this happens frequently. Sometimes they complain of too much water for weeks and then... when I still don't water them... keep complaining. Some plants that are supposed to require 8 hours of sunlight grow better in the shade than their comrades in a greenhouse.
Oh, and my personal favorite: "I'm going to grow from underneath the seed, so everything gets jammed inside and doesn't get any sunlight. And then I'm going to die."
All in all, nature is weird. That's the moral here. Fun, rewarding, and occasionally delicious... but weird.
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