Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Nobody has mentioned planting something to eat. You can raise a little food stuffs in planter pots even. And grow some around flowers in their beds. Then there's dandelions that can be dug up, cut low and replanted in pots or planter beds where dogs don't get to.
Onion roots can be replanted and re-grow for the rest of your life, as do most all of that family. Tomatoes and other veggies can be planted..save a few seeds of some you buy.
always sounds so FUN and exciting, but gardening is NOT easy nor cheap! As for saving seeds from things you buy..NOT a good idea..they are usually grown from Genetically modified plants and will not grow from those seeds..they are not meant to reproduce! they are also treated with chemicals that alter them, so again. usually will not grow!
IF you want to garden it takes months of reading,planning and hard work. Even just a pot of tomatoes can be hard to grow if you don't know your zone, your climate, what species to get, etc.
and then there is Mother nature..who decided to ruin the gardens of even the heartiest of gardeners this year..thus by forcing us to not be able to put up anything at all despite our months of planning and hard work!