You had quite the ambition for your garden! Having done all the dehydrating and canning I'm going to do for years--saving a true collapse in our food supply chain--I can testify to the demands as well as rewards of all that. Right now, I am down to some Swiss chard, carrots and tomatoes, plus some herbs. Hard to find enough sun here in my citified retirement digs, but I try! Why? The miracle of planting a tiny seed that grows into a nine foot tomato plant never fails to awe me. And the 'maters still taste better warm from the vine than the refrigerator section of the supermarket! And don't forget the flowers. Beauty is important in its own way.
I have nothing against gardening, but it seems that our civilization has generally accepted that the only efficient way to deal with doomscrolling is gardening - or any other offline activity.
You had quite the ambition for your garden! Having done all the dehydrating and canning I'm going to do for years--saving a true collapse in our food supply chain--I can testify to the demands as well as rewards of all that. Right now, I am down to some Swiss chard, carrots and tomatoes, plus some herbs. Hard to find enough sun here in my citified retirement digs, but I try! Why? The miracle of planting a tiny seed that grows into a nine foot tomato plant never fails to awe me. And the 'maters still taste better warm from the vine than the refrigerator section of the supermarket! And don't forget the flowers. Beauty is important in its own way.
There is something fundamental in ingedient to a healthy human phycology that requires we make, grow or fix things with our hands.
I have nothing against gardening, but it seems that our civilization has generally accepted that the only efficient way to deal with doomscrolling is gardening - or any other offline activity.
I do wood and metal work, play guitar and garden.