We started our backyard vegetable garden in New Brunswick when I was fourteen. We grew corn, peas, potatoes and some other stuff. (Some of our early fertilizer was seaweed we'd gathered from near our cottage.) We also composted. Two years later, we started growing head crops like cabbage and broccoli. We'd buy the plants already started and replant them once the danger of frost was over.
We were away in 1982 and 1989 and planted nothing in those years. Otherwise, we kept it going until my parents moved away in 1994. That year we planted nothing but peas, and harvested them all in August.
We started a backyard garden here in Toronto, but it's a lot smaller and took a long time to get right You can't plant corn in the city because of the raccoons, and anyway it didn't grow very big when we tried it. Also, it's just north of a tall fence, west of our house and east of a tall, wide plum tree, so sunlight is limited. In recent years I've just focused on growing potatoes, with some success. This year I may plant them more intensively.
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