Ask anyone who grows their own food and they'll tell you it's worth it. Not only do fresh, home-grown fruits and vegetables taste best and often are more nutritious than the ones sitting in a grocery store, but the pride and satisfaction that come from harvesting the fruits of your labor are also simply priceless.
However, getting there can be challenging. Especially if you're a newbie. After all, there's plenty you need to learn about the crop, nature keeps throwing you curveballs, and some pesky little creature is constantly trying to rob you.
So when someone fails at their first harvest, often the only thing left for them to do is... have a laugh about it on the Internet and try again next year.
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Harvested some bananas that grew in my backyard. I guess, success?
Granddad always called those small bananas "Nabanas". Y'all couldn't live without that information, right?
yea that is a success bananas are not as easy to grow as one would think they are very susceptible to disease. most bananas we see now dont even have a usable seed in them
"most bananas we see now"... Make that ALL bananas unless you happen to live in a part of the world that has varieties besides the Cavendish. Commercial banana varieties are seedless and the plants are propagated vegetatively.
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That could be a senorita banana, which are normally small but extra sweet
This could well be how they'll grow, there's over 2000 variety's of banana all sizes and shapes
Total success! Space consertive, low calories and child friendly.
There is a variety of bananas called lady fingers. They are super sweet and just this size.
Yes, that IS a success! It's small, but nearly perfect. For a banana split. Enjoy!
You could also view these pics as proof that millennials garden. Even though they have a reputation for spending time on their computers, not in their backyards, according to the National Gardening Survey in 2016, over 80 percent of the 6 million Americans who took up gardening the prior year were millennials.
They're giving the plant industry life, too. "With many millennials delaying parenthood, plants have become the new pets, fulfilling a desire to connect to nature and the blossoming 'wellness' movement," Matthew Boyle wrote for Bloomberg.
"For a group that embraces experiences and travel, moreover, plants give Gen-Yers something to care for that won't die — or soil the rug — when they're not around."
Interestingly, millennials can pay as much as $200 for some plants, but when you consider that according to a survey by The New York Times, raising kids is more expensive than it's ever been before and finances are the main reason why people aren't having kids or are having fewer kids than the number they consider ideal, although costly, plants don't seem that costly, do they!
Would anyone like some lemon water?
So when I purchased my super dwarf Tangerine. I was told that the tangerines themselves would be normal size. I guess I fotgot to ask, compared to what? Despite its size, it still peels, tastes and wedges just like a normal tangerine. But hey, Indiana grown citrus
That's a real talent you got here! I could barely peel a "normal" sized tangerine without squishing half of it! Kudos!
I just don't know what to do, start a ketchup factory maybe?
3 tomato plants in a pot that size won't get you anywhere. 1 even really.
Anyone know where to get a tiny bottle so I can make the ants some hot sauce?
My precious carrot harvest from this year. Matchsticks for size comparison.
My mom was very proud of her tomato harvest. It's spaghetti night, boys!
My first meyer lemon ripened today. Im so proud of the little guy. Banana for scale
Tried growing tomatoes for the first time this year. This was my harvest
I shall make a salad fit for a king
This egg my silky hens laid. Omelettes for breakfast today
If I never post again, the Rothschild Family have found me, deemed me a threat to their wine-producing operation and made me disappear....
I'm thinking broccoli cheddar soup, but what to do with all the rest of it?
I decided to pickle my mighty harvest for the long winter ahead.
So excited to blanch and vacuum seal homegrown beans for the holidays!
I'm so thankful that I'll be able to feed my family this spring. Foraging for mushrooms has been crutial during the quarantine.
My wife just cut open the watermelon she grew in the garden this year.
When you grow your own carrots but harvest micro-carrots 4 months later.
At least your carrot seeds were carrots. My mom planted what she thought were colorful carrots, but they turned out to be flowers.
I’ve been growing my carrots since the beginning of spring and today I went to harvest them and this is what at least half were like...
I trust that this great bounty will sustain us through the long, hard pandemic.
Built a garden for my wife a few months ago and it is finally time for the bountiful harvest. Tonight, we feast like kings.
A lot better than mine. I watered this bucket on my balcony for over three months, and later noticed that I had forgotten to plant the actual potatoe. So I was just watering soil for 3 months..
A bountiful harvest. This will get me through the harsh winter months.
My wonderful huge potato
I've been waiting and waiting for this butternut squash to ripen. Today I just couldnt wait any more. My kids are hungry and we had no choice
This carrot has enough vitamin A to restore a blind man's sight.
Try not to be too jealous of my bountiful first year harvest!
Not sure you let it grow long enough... supposed to take about 2 years...
As a long time vegetable gardener I can relate to this. If I have a good crop it's due to my skill, hard work, green thumb, etc. If it fails it's due to the weather, insects, disease, etc. It is never ever my fault.
Never thought I would call fruits and vegetables cute but today is the day, they are cute.
I wish I had a backyard so I could try and plant some veggies, but all I have is some Hungarian paprika peppers in a pot. It gave me a handful of peppers, I'm not complaining, but they're HOT and I can't eat all of them, so I don't know what to do with them. Any ideas?
Powder them and blow them in the face of your enemies
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From a couple of years ago: Barbie and friends had a feast. 1016171431...42abbb.jpg 
I have grown cherry and grape tomatoes in my garden. I get so many that I can't give them away. Family and friends got tired of me asking if they would some tomatoes. One year, a tomato plant seeded itself, so the following summer, I got fruit without having to plant anything. I have also grown potatoes. Harvesting was back breaking work.
People should start gardening with zucchini. Micro-zucchs are so much easier to sneak onto other people's doorsteps.
I can relate. I bought strawberry and blueberry bushes for my balcony this year. Not a single blueberry (all the flowers just fell off) and the ten strawberry plants managed approximately 10 strawberries total, between them (not counting the mouldy ones). But like Kenny, says, it's not at all my own fault! :)
I tried growing a few fruits and veggies in years past - broccoli, baby spinach, tomatoes, strawberries... this year is the first time I've tried growing them from seeds - and holy cow! My tomatoes are so big and plentiful! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them... other than make a ton of pasta sauce since the basil I planted is going insane too!!!
Lets blame all of our failures (some of mine were really weird) on the corona virus. I guess 2020 is areal bust all the way round.
small pot = small fruit. My friend and I grew chilli plants from the seeds, from the same chilli. Put mine in big pots, with lots of sun. They put theirs in really small pots, with little sun. They got a few miniscule chillis. Mine grew into multiple chest-high bushes, full of chillis. ie there is a logic behind this.
As a long time vegetable gardener I can relate to this. If I have a good crop it's due to my skill, hard work, green thumb, etc. If it fails it's due to the weather, insects, disease, etc. It is never ever my fault.
Never thought I would call fruits and vegetables cute but today is the day, they are cute.
I wish I had a backyard so I could try and plant some veggies, but all I have is some Hungarian paprika peppers in a pot. It gave me a handful of peppers, I'm not complaining, but they're HOT and I can't eat all of them, so I don't know what to do with them. Any ideas?
Powder them and blow them in the face of your enemies
Load More Replies... From a couple of years ago: Barbie and friends had a feast. 1016171431...42abbb.jpg
I have grown cherry and grape tomatoes in my garden. I get so many that I can't give them away. Family and friends got tired of me asking if they would some tomatoes. One year, a tomato plant seeded itself, so the following summer, I got fruit without having to plant anything. I have also grown potatoes. Harvesting was back breaking work.
People should start gardening with zucchini. Micro-zucchs are so much easier to sneak onto other people's doorsteps.
I can relate. I bought strawberry and blueberry bushes for my balcony this year. Not a single blueberry (all the flowers just fell off) and the ten strawberry plants managed approximately 10 strawberries total, between them (not counting the mouldy ones). But like Kenny, says, it's not at all my own fault! :)
I tried growing a few fruits and veggies in years past - broccoli, baby spinach, tomatoes, strawberries... this year is the first time I've tried growing them from seeds - and holy cow! My tomatoes are so big and plentiful! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them... other than make a ton of pasta sauce since the basil I planted is going insane too!!!
Lets blame all of our failures (some of mine were really weird) on the corona virus. I guess 2020 is areal bust all the way round.
small pot = small fruit. My friend and I grew chilli plants from the seeds, from the same chilli. Put mine in big pots, with lots of sun. They put theirs in really small pots, with little sun. They got a few miniscule chillis. Mine grew into multiple chest-high bushes, full of chillis. ie there is a logic behind this.
