I’m not much of a gardener. It’s laughable that I’m seen on the FR gardening thread. I can barely grow a tomato. :)
We break up the dirt, add compost and manure and cover with straw.
I start a bunch of seedlings and just throw a bunch out there and hope something sticks.
We live in a rental in town, so not much space. The garden is on the perimeter of the yard and a couple of beds in the middle.
We had a drought last year so couldn’t grow much. It usually turns out to be salsa and spaghetti sauce, salad and squash in a good year. Gotta have home grown maters. We usually have cilantro, basil and chives and parsley. Oregano and mint are in there for good.
Mmmm. Fresh herbs are nice.
I can’t grow beets or onions. I think our dirt is too hard or something. Lots of clay.
Sounds like you do pretty good!
In thought I couldn’t garden, in a CA tract home. Then I moved to Tennessee, and discovered I could great mosque anything here! Even with out preparing the soil and not knowing what I was doing, every seed I planted grew! Even the ones I later transplanted. I actually had to deal with bugs and diseases, a stage I never got to before!
So yes, it’s all your soil’s fault! maybe other factors you can’t control either. whatever it is that makes gardening work here ;)