It might have been good to grow more crops that don’t require cooking. Standard size tomatoes and cucumbers, carrots, that kind of thing. I wonder if it’s too late for sowing cucumbers.

I wish I had more space to garden… I was thinking of trying to improve the dry sandy neglected spot for actual growing when the disposable non-native annuals die.

As for prep I know sunflowers leach heavy metals out of soil, might break it up with deep tap roots, and beans enrich the soil with the nitrogen fixing bacteria in nodules on their roots. There are green manure crops you plow back in. Compost bins can be made cheaply (though I’d have to buy a drill.)

But it’s got a hard sandy layer I might not be able too break through to dig it over. And even with wetting agents, organic matter, nitrogenous crops etc it’s still quite publicly accessible ie vulnerable to vandalism and choked with greedy invasive tree roots.

Plus going out there to tend it puts me in proximity to crazies.

I just want to be allowed to mind my own fucking business and do my constructive hobby man… 😒