I’d love to be growing my own vegetables! The only thing I manage is a type of vine spinach in a pot that is almost impossible to kill, and a few potted herbs all on our balcony. This is because I live in sub-tropical Australia where going down to ground level in our garden for most of the year subjects me to instant midge bites, mosquitoes and ticks, all of which have dined on me at one time or another from visiting their habitat which is our yard. Our yard is also mostly shaded by other houses or trees or neighbor’s trees, which makes for poor growing conditions for most things! I guess I should feel good with the few greens I grow!

…By the way, besides the midges, mosquitoes and ticks are the caterpillars which dine on many of the green things I’d like to grow! Also, if the greens were at ground level I’d be feeding the possums, wallabies and create a foraging ground for the native brush turkeys!