30 Times People Attempted To Grow Their Own Food, But The Results Were Hilariously Disappointing

God bless the farmers in our world.

Growing up as a kid, we had strawberry plants and tons of rabbits. That meant tons of strawberry-seed-laden bunny turds all over the yard (tiny and dry, so not messy). That meant strawberry plants trying to grow among the regularly mown grass. We'd get these tiny little strawberries... no bigger than grains of rice. So tiny you COULDN'T try to eat them if you tried. Like the abundant clover, they'd attract big fat bumblebees which meant you'd have to wear shoes so you didn't get stung if you stepped on one. But I liked petting the bees, too.

I tried growing my own veg in South Africa (read: sunny) and with lots of water, lots of space, and lots of good soil, and got similar results to the above (not quite as bad). Result: I now really really respect farmers.

I'm so glad they trimmed this from a whopping 34 pictures to a much more manageable 30. Those extra four completely backlogged my internet connection. /s

last year I planted carrots, cougettes, fennel, corn, basil and sunflowers, properly, by growing it in a greenhouse until big enough to plant outside, got new growing bags, compost, even netting to protect from birds. I harvested one courgette and a couple of sunflowers actually flowered but died so quickly there was no change to get the seeds. Everything else died. I blame the summer drought.

My long term garden goal was to grow a cantaloupe melon. I live in a short growing climate, so I started the plants indoors, which is apparently not the best idea. But I finally got one in 2021. Just one small one, about 15cm/6" long. Plus two very tiny unripe versions. P1000776-6...1722f2.jpg

The sweetest fruit I ever tasted were blueberries growing on the mountains of upstate New York. They grew in harsh, moisture-stripping wind in tiny pockets of soil among rockfaces, so they grew o so slowly and were o so tiny. But these little berries no bigger than mustard seeds had as much flavor and sweetness compressed in that tiny little berry as any big fat supermarket blueberry.

There is a reason some people were farmers and somer are millers and some were thatchers and so on...because we all have talents and they are not all the same.

none of them had used fertilisers, my first harvest from tomatoes, cucumber, and green bell pepper was the same in pictures, then second attempt I learn more about fertilisers, simply bring potatoes peels, banana's peels, and egg shells, add ¼ cup of water and mix with hand blender, until a black mixture will be formed, pour it in the pot before seeding, once the plant start to grow repeat the same process again and pour it around the plants, Be generous with the banana peels and egg shells, potatoes peels zucchini peels are a good addition, do you want a giant plants use peels from 5 oranges in South America they found it useful, I didn't have the chance to test it yet with orange, but it should be better than banana's peels edit: I have 1½ m² balcony in the 10th floor toward south

How do tiny produce happen like this? Potatoes are crazy easy to grow, so I'd it soil issues? Watering too much/little? They are all adorable though.

At least you guys have something. You don't wanna see my dried lettuce sprouts 🤦‍♀️

From the looks of many of these, where we could see part of the plant or the soil, the poor results seemed to be due to under watering and not destroying various parasites.

Right before reading this I was looking at my collection of seeds, imagining my future luxurious garden. Thanks for the reality check lol

I once had an olive tree. When I got it, it already had 12 little olives growing on it. These developed into actual olive size, and tasted awful, regardless of how I tried. Ok, maybe next year I'll get that right, with how long they shall be in salt water, how and when to add spices or transfer them into oil, ... next year, I got a huge growth. Of the tree itself. It got vacation at Grandma's, to be pollinated and stuff ... came back blooming like it was painted by van Gogh ... and all olives fell of at about a pea's size and the tree, slowly, degraded and faded into a dead stick. I consulted friends who are more experienced gardeners than I am, but to no avail, they either didn't know what to do, or predicted the tree's death. It died. I, since, have not tried again to grow olives, but as I love olives and recently found out I do in fact like painting, I may discover the same about gardning that exceeds keeping a cactus alive ... which, the hardest part of, is distracting some weird black furrish thing that walks around here like she owns the place ... but, she allows me in her bed, I'm not to complain too loud, hehehehe...

There all so cute

Oh I love this list!!!!! Made me laugh 😂

Many of these were harvested too early

Honestly none of that disappointed me to look at, although I'm sure the farmers, harvesters, whatever the term is, feel different. All the tiny fruits and veggies looked so cute 😍