Worth Doing Badly

We moved here at the beginning of February, which allowed for only very abbreviated garden planning. My main goal for this growing season is not to be intimidated or overwhelmed into doing nothing! So I ordered a bunch of seeds, many of which will not get planted, and came up with a simple planting calendar, which I have mostly ignored.

This is not actually the garden. I was going to plant something here,
but the kids enjoy messing around in it so much we have left it as a weedy dirt patch.

Whenever I have a few spare minutes, I haphazardly plant a few seeds of whatever I'd most like to eat at that moment. No way to run a "real" garden, but it's worked surprisingly well as an educational experience for me, the complete garden newbie. I'm even telling myself that if I had planned better and been more organized, I just would have planted far more than I could keep up with. This non-method has meant that we've been able to stay on top of weeding. And this winter, there should be plenty of time for a fancy garden plan that actually pays attention to plant location and crop rotation and the like.