People need to understand that gardening is a huge amount of labor and time spent - it’s not economical compared to working a job and buying what you need.
It depends on how you do it. Read Masanobu Fukuoka’s, “One-Straw Revolution”. I don’t plow, til or do much weeding. I don’t use machinery to garden, just a round point shovel, hoe and a five tine fork to spread mulch. I save seeds that grow well, produce and are tasty. I don’t spend a lot of time working in my garden and I don’t have hardly any weeds. It’s all about the technique you use. Conventional gardening can be very expensive and labor intensive.
Yes, I also used “lazy gardening” and permaculture oriented techniques - I don’t know how to tell you that for most people this is an unreasonable amount of labor. Even if you do no labor on weeding and digging, you are left with significant labor managing harvests, storing your harvest, etc. - for people who work full-time or don’t have much time or energy to give, or for people who are differently abled or become injured or disabled, farming can be inaccessible. It is better to think of it as a full-time job, even when approaching it with permaculture and “one straw revolution” style techniques.
It depends on how you do it. Read Masanobu Fukuoka’s, “One-Straw Revolution”. I don’t plow, til or do much weeding. I don’t use machinery to garden, just a round point shovel, hoe and a five tine fork to spread mulch. I save seeds that grow well, produce and are tasty. I don’t spend a lot of time working in my garden and I don’t have hardly any weeds. It’s all about the technique you use. Conventional gardening can be very expensive and labor intensive.
Yes, I also used “lazy gardening” and permaculture oriented techniques - I don’t know how to tell you that for most people this is an unreasonable amount of labor. Even if you do no labor on weeding and digging, you are left with significant labor managing harvests, storing your harvest, etc. - for people who work full-time or don’t have much time or energy to give, or for people who are differently abled or become injured or disabled, farming can be inaccessible. It is better to think of it as a full-time job, even when approaching it with permaculture and “one straw revolution” style techniques.