"Brooklyn1" Gravesend1 wrote in message
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

And I also find that things tend to even out over time. If I have a good
year with one veg and a not so good year with another, it doesn't really
matter. If I'd decided to plant only a few of any one vegetable or even
only one or two varieties of vegetables, I would have missed out because
the
conditions for whatever didn't do well coul dhave had an impact on my only
a
few veg/varieties.

So essentially you are concurring, home vegetable gardening is a
hobby, you're mostly in it for the personal enjoyment of growing
stuff, and you get to eat some too.

I'm not a market gardener so yes, it could be called 'a hobby'. But then
since I'm not motivated by money or saving or selling then to me there's no
point in labelling it. It's something I'm very serious aobut and have been
for about 35 years. I didnt' even spend that much time as a wage slave and
that was supposed to be a 'profession'.

Sure home grown tomatoes taste
better than the typical store bought but mostly they all come in at
once within a relatively short period as do all crops, one can eat
only so much.

No, they don't all 'come in' at once. That is an importatn point of my
growing stuff. I use succession planting and I also grow older varieties
which tend to crop over a long period rather than do their stuff in a week
and then die.

Unless one goes into crops on a large enough scale to
supply several families there is no way that supermarket prices can be
beat... and even with a little truck farm crops can fail and often do
and for a number of reasons outside ones control, and then there's the
cost of supplies, tools, and powered equipment and those get used up
and fail too.

I don't use 'powered equipment'. I use human power. I have never broken a
fork or a spade. I think I've broken one of maybe 2 handles in 40 years of
gardening and they were easily replaced.