Vegetable Gardening
You get to eat it, but the calendar dictates everything
Unlike ornamental gardening this runs on a calendar: sowing and harvest windows are fixed by the season and a missed one waits a year, which makes your local frost dates more useful than any guide. In year one grow forgiving things — lettuce, beans, courgettes — and expect more than you can eat.
First stepLook up your area's last frost date, sow lettuce and beans after it, and look after them through to the first harvest.
Barriers
Cost to start
Under $50
Going deep → $300–2k
Alone or with people
On your own
Effort
You will sweat
Without a teacher?
Self-taught
same as parent · Gardening
One session takes
1–2 hours
same as parent · Gardening
Where
Outdoors, free
Why people take it up