My COVID-19 garden

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the squirrels and opposums find it and eat it down to the ground overnight.

Hate to be a downer but you got a heck of a row to hoe if you're going to plant all that.

I converted a section of my side yard to vegetables starting last year. So far the powdery mildew has taken my cukes, squash, okra and sweet peppers.

I have 4 cherry tomato plants and two heirloom tomato plants that are bearing fruit. Still green at this moment. I harvested about 60 carrots, only around 30 of them were of any length. Lost my beet crop to a smack of hot weather two weeks ago. Out of 8 eggplant plants, I have two remaining but the fruits are small about 3 inches long. definitely not enough to feed two of us let alone a family.
Hmmmmm, something ate my strawberries(that was quick) My bush beans got rust and never recovered.

I'm not growing fruit trees of any type.

We're in a moderate drought and I don't have a well so I save rain water. I have a 400 gallon storage of it. It goes away fast.I hate to pay the sewerage charge to the city for water that percs in to the ground. I'm trying to work out a gravity fed drip irrigation system. Haven't come up with one that doesn't clog up yet.

I am currently getting ready to prep the beds for fall planting. Pulling and getting rid of plant waste(not composting possible problems) and solarizing hoping to kill the pathogens that I believe came from two truck loads of wood chips I used to cover the grass in that section of yard.

The beds are 16' x 16', 8' x 8', 2' x 4', 4' x 6', round plastic barrel halves, and a 6' x 6'. I used commercial topsoil, miraclegro soil, horse manure, vegetable scraps and straw as my planting base. It was a lot of work, a lot.

would I do it again???

Hell yes.

Now excuse me while I treat my aching back to turning the compost piles.