I can offer insight to each maneuver you touched on there. I run a cell phone tracking company. Turning off your phone isn’t enough. Not for certain trackers (Mine doesn’t work if you turn it off, but with access levels that can be granted)(I’ll NEVER get those access levels)
I’m focusing on food production this year. I’m a machinist, and a technology guy. I can fix anything but if I touch a pepper it turns into a machine screw. I’ve got the worst green thumb of anyone I know. I simply don’t get a THING right.
I’m with you on the gardening. Still time to work on skills, for now. Have you joined the gardening ping list?
[ I run a cell phone tracking company. Turning off your phone isn’t enough. ]
Correct.
The secret to having a green thumb....kill a lot of plants.
The rest are survivors like yourself.
Buy this book: The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible by Edward C. Smith.
It’s the only book you need. It tells you everything you were doing wrong, and how to do it right, and you’ll slap your forehead and go, “D’oh!”
Here’s my tip: Don’t try to plant a grocery store at first. Start small, with no more than 5 or 6 ***compatible*** plants (incompatible cross pollination is the big mistake beginners make) then add new veggies to the outer edges of your plot, so your types of veggies increase outward.
Also, Lowe’s and Home Depot sell the 25 gallon cheap black plastic pots that a whole lot of veggies can be planted in, and you can experiment, and see what to later put in the ground, before you wear out your back.
Between your rows, use the thick, woven black weed stop fabric with the green stripe. The other stuff does not work.
Farming is a procedure not an art form.Lots of good books to read,get your soil tested so you know what you’re working with and just follow the guidelines.