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Ask anyone who grows their own food and they'll tell you it's worth it. Not only do fresh, home-grown fruits and vegetables taste best and often are more nutritious than the ones sitting in a grocery store, but the pride and satisfaction that come from harvesting the fruits of your labor are also simply priceless.

However, getting there can be challenging. Especially if you're a newbie. After all, there's plenty you need to learn about the crop, nature keeps throwing you curveballs, and some pesky little creature is constantly trying to rob you.

So when someone fails at their first harvest, often the only thing left for them to do is... have a laugh about it on the Internet and try again next year.

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Harvested some bananas that grew in my backyard. I guess, success?

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You could also view these pics as proof that millennials garden. Even though they have a reputation for spending time on their computers, not in their backyards, according to the National Gardening Survey in 2016, over 80 percent of the 6 million Americans who took up gardening the prior year were millennials.

They're giving the plant industry life, too. "With many millennials delaying parenthood, plants have become the new pets, fulfilling a desire to connect to nature and the blossoming 'wellness' movement," Matthew Boyle wrote for Bloomberg.

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Molly Block
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a success too. You may not have had a bounty of large plentiful potatoes, but you had a couple of small perfect ones for frying, and I bet they tasted amazing!

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"For a group that embraces experiences and travel, moreover, plants give Gen-Yers something to care for that won't die — or soil the rug — when they're not around."

Interestingly, millennials can pay as much as $200 for some plants, but when you consider that according to a survey by The New York Times, raising kids is more expensive than it's ever been before and finances are the main reason why people aren't having kids or are having fewer kids than the number they consider ideal, although costly, plants don't seem that costly, do they!

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So when I purchased my super dwarf Tangerine. I was told that the tangerines themselves would be normal size. I guess I fotgot to ask, compared to what? Despite its size, it still peels, tastes and wedges just like a normal tangerine. But hey, Indiana grown citrus


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SykesDaMan
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a real talent you got here! I could barely peel a "normal" sized tangerine without squishing half of it! Kudos!

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I just don't know what to do, start a ketchup factory maybe?

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Enough garlic to last the quarantine

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Linda HS
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everybody with the smol veggies should get together and make a smol garden salad!😃

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Anyone know where to get a tiny bottle so I can make the ants some hot sauce?


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Had to bust out the wagon to haul in this load

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Ready to begin harvesting. Need advice on canning.

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My precious carrot harvest from this year. Matchsticks for size comparison.

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My mom was very proud of her tomato harvest. It's spaghetti night, boys!


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Grew corn in our backyard for the first time. Nailed it

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My first meyer lemon ripened today. Im so proud of the little guy. Banana for scale


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The juice is worth the squeeze


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Tried growing tomatoes for the first time this year. This was my harvest

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Enough to make eggplant parm for the entire population of Italy.

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Anne
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can buy eggplant mini's seeds though, this is a legit variety

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I shall make a salad fit for a king

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Scagsy
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which part of the US are from? If it's Mini-apple-is then this is to be expected.

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A 400% return on investment

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mate Jack would like to buy these. Would you trade them for a cow?

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This egg my silky hens laid. Omelettes for breakfast today 

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If I never post again, the Rothschild Family have found me, deemed me a threat to their wine-producing operation and made me disappear....

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I'm thinking broccoli cheddar soup, but what to do with all the rest of it?

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I decided to pickle my mighty harvest for the long winter ahead.

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My family is prepared for the Michigan winter

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Not sure what to do with all this lettuce

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So excited to blanch and vacuum seal homegrown beans for the holidays!

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I'm so thankful that I'll be able to feed my family this spring. Foraging for mushrooms has been crutial during the quarantine.


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My wife just cut open the watermelon she grew in the garden this year.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The original watermelons were not much different from this one. For the past 50 years or so, fruit has been engineered to yield bigger bounty.

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When you grow your own carrots but harvest micro-carrots 4 months later.

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Ashla Delana
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least your carrot seeds were carrots. My mom planted what she thought were colorful carrots, but they turned out to be flowers.

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I’ve been growing my carrots since the beginning of spring and today I went to harvest them and this is what at least half were like...

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I trust that this great bounty will sustain us through the long, hard pandemic.

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Just look what i came back to from my vacation. These three tomato behemoths.

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Planted corn just for fun and was pretty exited to harvest. Then I saw this.

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Built a garden for my wife a few months ago and it is finally time for the bountiful harvest. Tonight, we feast like kings.

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Bei Stenhaug
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot better than mine. I watered this bucket on my balcony for over three months, and later noticed that I had forgotten to plant the actual potatoe. So I was just watering soil for 3 months..

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A bountiful harvest. This will get me through the harsh winter months.

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My wonderful huge potato

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I've been waiting and waiting for this butternut squash to ripen. Today I just couldnt wait any more. My kids are hungry and we had no choice

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This carrot has enough vitamin A to restore a blind man's sight.

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Andrew
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This shouldn't belong here, that is a thin carrot, but I bet it has the same amount of carrot as a normal carrot.

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Try not to be too jealous of my bountiful first year harvest!

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My family's potato harvest this weekend

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