I can't thank everyone enough for all the advice. I guess when I first started, not killing anything was my first goal; then as I planted & learned more, my goal was to challenge myself with more intricate stuff, like learning more terminology, how to grow things more difficult & so on.... Alot of it still seems quite foreign to me. I wasn't sure if I had done something incorrectly to not have had the harvest I'd hoped to have. So, I was wanting to learn how to try & fix it. I guess that's the determined New Yorker in me.
J.R. Baca- the pot being legalized here in CA (to be completely honest) is something I hadn't given much thought to. I sure don't want to get high off my vegetables- just full. Maybe I would have thought differently about 15 years or so ago. And I'll be more than happy to send you some simple, yet delicious recipes!
Though I don't have any more ground space to plant more stuff, I would have no problem building a raised bed that would sit on the concrete somewhere on my patio. I had been told that now isn't the best time to grow tomatoes; however, if that were true, how come Home Depot has tons of nice tomato plants? It was the other day that I realized that where I am in CA that we are the exception to the rule as to what to plant & when because of our weather... No frost dates. Yes, experience is the best teacher and I am learning that; I like to learn so I hopefully increase success & reduce chances of failure, which I know I'll have. I still feel like I hardly know anything, but when I look out on my patio, I think of all the fine people on here that taught me to get to this point.
