I’ve had issues with bugs which has mostly been solved by interplanting everything. Every tomato, pepper, and basil plant is in different parts of the garden with marigolds and other companion plants around. Bugs like monocrops, they tend to have lower pressure when you mix things up. Bugs still get a few things, but they are a lot less focused than when I grew things in large monocrop beds. The bad back makes it hard though, planting can be hard on your back.
It sounds like you have quite a lot of expertise most people don’t have, which is probably why you find growing food relatively easy and many don’t. It’s not just needing the weekly time to plant and maintain the land, or needing to have good land in the first place, that stops people, it’s also not having time to build up that expertise.
Building up expertise… you mean like watch any of the thousands of accessible YouTube videos that say to do exactly this. I’m an amateur in the garden, watching a video to solve a simple problem being called expertise feels like you’re giving it more weight than it needs. We have much of the knowledge of human history at our fingertips, no expertise needed.
I’ve had issues with bugs which has mostly been solved by interplanting everything. Every tomato, pepper, and basil plant is in different parts of the garden with marigolds and other companion plants around. Bugs like monocrops, they tend to have lower pressure when you mix things up. Bugs still get a few things, but they are a lot less focused than when I grew things in large monocrop beds. The bad back makes it hard though, planting can be hard on your back.
It sounds like you have quite a lot of expertise most people don’t have, which is probably why you find growing food relatively easy and many don’t. It’s not just needing the weekly time to plant and maintain the land, or needing to have good land in the first place, that stops people, it’s also not having time to build up that expertise.
Building up expertise… you mean like watch any of the thousands of accessible YouTube videos that say to do exactly this. I’m an amateur in the garden, watching a video to solve a simple problem being called expertise feels like you’re giving it more weight than it needs. We have much of the knowledge of human history at our fingertips, no expertise needed.