I see some people's gardens with no weeds the soil looks freshly dug and all of their plants are huge and green. They spend countless hours tending to their garden to ensure a large harvest. Well, I've decided gardening sucks and here's why:
12 Raspberry plants: We bought a huge bucket of expensive plant food, we had the soil nicely broken up, watered and juiced up with plant steroids. We made sure all the weeds were pulled and that Clyde didn't pee on the new raspberry starts. All 12 plants died within 24 hours.
100% work = zero results
1 Blackberry plant: This thing was pathetic. A stick with four leaves and Jake expected it to have blackberries...well it had about five blackberries all of which Clyde ate. The plant did survive with three leaves remaining.
75% work = 25% results
4 Cucumber plants: I made sure to plant them in a mound like my mother does... watered them every so often..then we forgot about them for about two weeks...revived them with some water a few weeks later leaving us with...two plants. Ok better odds then the first plant. We did have some good tasting cucumbers but we must have had some left over drugs in the soil from the previous owners. Our cucumbers were so miss-shaped.
50 % work = 75% results
Hmm...so with a little bit of neglect we at least got some plants to survive and produce something..which leaves us with the Tomato plant.
1 Tomato Plant: We planted it in a random corner of the yard, we let the weeds co-exist with it heck they were even choking the poor tomato plant. Maybe watered it a few times. Then completely forgot about it.
....the plant grew over five feet tall.
..and produced over FIFTY tomatoes in one picking.
5% work = 110% results
Who says you have to tend your garden...it kind of denounces you reap what you sow...a little bit of neglect with a touch of water can go a long ways. Eat your heart out Martha Stewart.
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