“If you’re ready to move from casual gardening to stocking up for the winter, I can’t stress enough to plant more than you think you will need, or in other words plant more than you eventually want to harvest.
And plant a variety of foods, you may have a crop failure.
It could be the seeds, you or the weather, but the end result is the same. Nada.
Food is also perishable. Yesterday I was going to cook up my weekly winter squash for the week ahead, and in going over my stores, I see a large winter squash going bad. Then getting to it I knocked the stem off of a different one…