Grow Something Else.

I belong to a few Facebook garden groups.  It's fun to see what people are doing with their gardens, what kinds of successes they're having and the failures.

It seems like the biggest failure comes from animals or insects eating things up.  We've had that problem from time to time, but on a smaller scale than people who go out in the morning and see that one or more garden crops are just gone.  Discouraging!

I've been gardening long enough now that I know the answers to a lot of the questions asked by inexperienced folks.  That feels pretty good.

Of course, I still have questions of my own, like why do my cauliflowers look like this: 

So, I posted the photo asking what I should do differently.  The best response was that I should grow something else.  In other words, there was no hope for me!

Other responses provide some good tips which I'll try next year, before giving up forever.  After all, when you grow something, it should at least look a little bit like what you're trying to grow.

We had a little cross-pollination going on in our melons this year.  Very strange looking cantaloupe, and a watermelon that was shaped a little like a Hubbard squash.  I haven't had the nerve to cut it open to see what's inside yet.

Now that the air is turning cooler it's just a matter of time before we're in the "waiting for garden season" season again.  I hope the garden groups have some good suggestions about how to remain sane when snow covers the garden again.