Kay Easton wrote:
Try fruit. Perennials are easier and a lot more forgiving ;-)
Most things need an annual prune. But you're not growing at such an
intensive pace, so if your garden soil is reasonably fertile, you don't
need to worry about fertiliser, it's easier to avoid pesticides, and you
can grow varieties and flavours that you can't get in the shops.
And whereas it is now possible to buy good quality vegetables not too
expensively, that's not quite so true of fruit.

Perhaps but you also need more space, more insect traps, you attract
nasty biting insects, you get more shade and your soil becomes
eventually no good for anything else. I inherited an orchard/lotty
once, belonging to an old head mistress since the war and it was indeed
marvelous, lots and lots of fruits I had but couldn't grow anything
else.

You can grow veggies in any sort of containers with very little effort.
You can grow vegs on the ground without having to dig either. I've
never used pesticides in anything I've grown.