If I Had to Garden for Sustenance...

                      ...we'd have survived for a rather hungry single day.

This year's produce totaled:


A nice crop of sugar snap peas.
A respectable bowl of green beans.
Several salads' worth of various lettuces.
Two whole zucchini!
A fairly reasonable amount of herbs (though after several years, the thyme and rosemary finally bit the dust).
And quite the abundance of accidental (and largely unneeded) jalepeños.

                                                          

And of course the jungle of cilantro (I apparently didn't take a picture of it when it was a jungle - waist high "weeds" filling the edible bed!) which irks me immensely when it takes months to go to seed, re-seed itself, take root and start producing more edible cilantro...right through the good avocado season 😑

New crop of cilantro finally coming back up after months of the seeding process

I'm now on my fall planting of peas which are looking excellent...

First time trying this, so we shall see what the harvest yields!

And found a use for all my jalepeños:

Spicy-food-loving husband is very happy!

So yeah, probably ridiculously obvious to say that I have such respect for the mad skills and endurance of people like those exampled below; and how not having a grocery store to run to when your crops fail (or not having the funds to do so) adds immense anxiety and hardship.

Gardening for fun instead of sustenance and/or livelihood is definitely a luxury I am blessed with.