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Have you tried something simpler, like tomatoes?

I have to weed them out of my compost pile because they grow so fast and heavy they eventually collapse on themselves. In my small, Paris garden I've managed to grow tomatoes, sweet peppers, and potatoes.

Not enough to be sustainable but it does create interesting conversation when friends are over and they see me reach out the window and grab a few veggies for the salad.



Yup. Never even showed a leaf!

Around here, there are also lots of mice, wabbits, squirrels, deer, etc. A successful garden would likely need to be completely enclosed.


Build a greenhouse, grow chillis, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, grapes,


One can buy a whole lot of mass produced tomatoes from Mexico for the price of building a greenhouse.

Never mind all the work. Until food becomes a lot more expensive, most people probably won't take up growing it.

(Not disagreeing that the tomatoes aren't better and it wouldn't be all around the healthy thing to do...)


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