As you’re planning your 2025 garden, one piece of advice I would give you is to start small.
Plant 3 tomatoes, not 30, for example. 3 tomatoes are manageable. You can dig a garden to hold those 3 tomato plants in less than an hour. You can sow seeds for 3 tomato plants in mere minutes. You can weed around those plants in minutes.
30 tomatoes, in contrast, is almost a full time job. Caring for a garden that size is a lot of work.
And things will go wrong. Plants will die. Or become ill. Or have to be moved.
You are learning. Allow yourself plenty of time to do that.
If you’re successful with the 3 tomato plants and you have excess time and energy, you can plant a few more and expand your garden next year.
Or not.
Maybe the 3 tomato plants are enough.
Start small.
