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Growing season was about sharing

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I made several mistakes this planting season. Duh. Let’s start with: - listening to everybody but the pros and my gut; - planting tomatoes too close together even though I knew to plant two feet apart; - planting cucumbers too close together (after awhile they become one property); - planting too few onions, too soon, too close together; - Not buying a heat lamp; (even though the beets and jalapeno peppers seeds were duds); - Not building climbing terraces for the cucumbers and tomatoes waaaaay before I needed them; - planting too many basil plants; - Not planting garlic or bell peppers. The mistakes above cost me time but not money or enthusiasm. And to be honest, even with the mistakes I mentioned above I still did a pretty good job of feeding others. I thoroughly enjoyed sowing, but I really enjoyed reaping. I took pleasure in the comments from both family and friends when biting into crunchy cucumbers, chomping down on juicy tomatoes, going stark raving mad not only from the sc