Results: Calling all veggie gardeners!
Published on 07/16/2015
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1.
1.
Do you have a vegetable garden? Yes
30%
503 votes
No
66%
1119 votes
Undecided
4%
69 votes
2.
2.
If not, why not? No place for one
30%
502 votes
No time for one
16%
268 votes
No desire for one
18%
310 votes
I'd like to, but my spouse, significant other, etc. doesn't want me to dig up the yard.
2%
40 votes
N/A
40%
678 votes
Other (please specify)
4%
60 votes
Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
---|---|---|
0.22% | 4 | |
no water | 0.11% | 2 |
too old | 0.05% | 1 |
too lazy | 0.05% | 1 |
always dies | 0.05% | 1 |
long story | 0.05% | 1 |
can not grow anything | 0.05% | 1 |
not enough time this year too much going on | 0.05% | 1 |
no place, time or desire for one | 0.05% | 1 |
didn't start one this year | 0.05% | 1 |
no land | 0.05% | 1 |
not allowed | 0.05% | 1 |
wind kills everything here. unless without a greenhouse. | 0.05% | 1 |
not very good at growing vegetables | 0.05% | 1 |
we are too old. we had one when we were younger | 0.05% | 1 |
bad nieghbor | 0.05% | 1 |
deer eat it so i buy from local farmers market | 0.05% | 1 |
i live in an apartment | 0.05% | 1 |
not able | 0.05% | 1 |
plan to next summer | 0.05% | 1 |
we're having a drought | 0.05% | 1 |
too much physical labor | 0.05% | 1 |
not enough sun | 0.05% | 1 |
had a huge one for years and got tired of doing it. | 0.05% | 1 |
just haven't had to energy to plant one. plus my soil is lousy. | 0.05% | 1 |
i rent and don't have resources to plant in containers | 0.05% | 1 |
just moved and didn't have time to plant | 0.05% | 1 |
dog eats everything in it | 0.05% | 1 |
not mobile enough (yet!) to tend one. next year, i hope. | 0.05% | 1 |
to many cats in the area | 0.05% | 1 |
time and health | 0.05% | 1 |
too much work | 0.05% | 1 |
i have a black thumb | 0.05% | 1 |
the sun kills everything here | 0.05% | 1 |
i used to have one. too much pain now. | 0.05% | 1 |
couldn't afford buying plants this year. | 0.05% | 1 |
fire ants infested my garden spot this year | 0.05% | 1 |
no space for one | 0.05% | 1 |
my dogs will dig everything up | 0.05% | 1 |
rental property | 0.05% | 1 |
i rent an apartment ..lol | 0.05% | 1 |
too much rain where i live | 0.05% | 1 |
yard too shady | 0.05% | 1 |
soil is too sandy, no money for raised beds | 0.05% | 1 |
the deer keep eating everything | 0.05% | 1 |
no water for one---we're in a drought. | 0.05% | 1 |
no access to a garden (live in an apartment) | 0.05% | 1 |
i plant tomatoes herbs and peppers. my tomatoes are dying fromt to much rain | 0.05% | 1 |
too much work and i loose interest towards the end of the summer | 0.05% | 1 |
live in town and tried to have one but no luck with anything so we quit. | 0.05% | 1 |
i am disabled and can't care for one | 0.05% | 1 |
i kill plants | 0.05% | 1 |
to much work | 0.05% | 1 |
bears, rabbits, turkeys would get first dibs..rather not attract bears, thank you very much | 0.05% | 1 |
nothing will grow here | 0.05% | 1 |
drought | 0.05% | 1 |
3.
3.
If so, why do you? To save money
13%
225 votes
The food from my garden tastest *sooooo* much better
26%
438 votes
My parents did, and I just always have
7%
116 votes
To teach the kids
6%
109 votes
For relaxation
13%
214 votes
To feed the bugs
2%
31 votes
N/A
63%
1057 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
21 votes
Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
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0.27% | 6 | |
i know exactly what goes into it. no chemicals, for instance. | 0.05% | 1 |
i enjoy it | 0.05% | 1 |
it's organic | 0.05% | 1 |
used to and wish i still did | 0.05% | 1 |
i love fresh produce and it is hard to find | 0.05% | 1 |
i don't have one | 0.05% | 1 |
to can and preserve. cheaper and healthier | 0.05% | 1 |
exercise | 0.05% | 1 |
have had in the past but recently had kidney cancer surgery | 0.05% | 1 |
truly organic! | 0.05% | 1 |
healthier than the crap they feed you at the store | 0.05% | 1 |
hobby for my husband | 0.05% | 1 |
to harvest at highest peak & best nutrition | 0.05% | 1 |
hobby | 0.05% | 1 |
freeze tomatoes and have lots of spaghetti sauce! | 0.05% | 1 |
4.
4.
For those that don't have a garden, please answer the following question with your "fantasy garden desires." First, how do you garden? Above ground, in raised beds
23%
382 votes
Straight in the soil, the old-fashioned way
42%
707 votes
Just in containers
18%
312 votes
I have a few herbs on the window sill--that counts!
15%
248 votes
Other (please specify)
14%
236 votes
Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
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na | 3.13% | 59 |
n/a | 2.92% | 55 |
2.60% | 49 | |
none | 0.74% | 14 |
i have a garden | 0.42% | 8 |
have a garden | 0.11% | 2 |
no garden | 0.11% | 2 |
i don't | 0.11% | 2 |
na. | 0.11% | 2 |
hhhh | 0.05% | 1 |
n/a - i have a garden | 0.05% | 1 |
don't plan on having one | 0.05% | 1 |
don't have a garden | 0.05% | 1 |
greenhouse & herb window sill | 0.05% | 1 |
i don't want one. | 0.05% | 1 |
no place to have a garden | 0.05% | 1 |
n?a | 0.05% | 1 |
nope | 0.05% | 1 |
in the store | 0.05% | 1 |
n/a i do have a garden | 0.05% | 1 |
live in an apartment not too practicable | 0.05% | 1 |
donot | 0.05% | 1 |
don't have a fantasy garden | 0.05% | 1 |
nbh | 0.05% | 1 |
no thanks | 0.05% | 1 |
i already have a garden | 0.05% | 1 |
not applicable | 0.05% | 1 |
no | 0.05% | 1 |
n.a | 0.05% | 1 |
. | 0.05% | 1 |
dont | 0.05% | 1 |
dont do this | 0.05% | 1 |
have garden | 0.05% | 1 |
have a garden. | 0.05% | 1 |
do not garden | 0.05% | 1 |
magic beans | 0.05% | 1 |
n/a i have a small garden/ plant a few things | 0.05% | 1 |
stop you need a n/a | 0.05% | 1 |
i just have a flower garden | 0.05% | 1 |
don't know | 0.05% | 1 |
je ne fais pas de potager | 0.05% | 1 |
do not have one | 0.05% | 1 |
don't | 0.05% | 1 |
i do not have a garden because i hate to garden. | 0.05% | 1 |
890809 | 0.05% | 1 |
no desire to garden | 0.05% | 1 |
na i have one | 0.05% | 1 |
i have one | 0.05% | 1 |
i do not garden | 0.05% | 1 |
i have a real one | 0.05% | 1 |
do not want one, do not have a fantasy desires for one | 0.05% | 1 |
i already did but in the past raised beds | 0.05% | 1 |
5.
5.
I once read that the difference between an avid gardener and a compulsive gardener is that an avid gardener gives tomatoes to co-workers, friends, family and neighbors, and a compulsive gardener breaks into vehicles at Walmart to leave tomatoes on the car seats of strangers. Be honest now, are you a compulsive gardener, at least a little? I've never broken into cars, but I've been known to chase the arch-enemy squash beetle in a bathrobe and slippers
6%
98 votes
I've been observed pulling up weeds at night with a flashlight--(candles are even better)
6%
97 votes
When there are water restrictions I save the water from dishwashing to pour on my beloved tomatoes, to say nothing of the buckets I force everyone to use in the shower
5%
86 votes
I often refer to seed and garden catalogs as pornography
3%
58 votes
At last count, I had over a hundred recipes for zucchini
3%
45 votes
I've spent more on canning equipment that I'll ever save on veggies so I can brag about the money I've saved
3%
43 votes
N/A
79%
1337 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
21 votes
Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
---|---|---|
0.39% | 7 | |
no | 0.11% | 2 |
uh...what? | 0.06% | 1 |
i grow all of my own seedlings. | 0.06% | 1 |
i am neither | 0.06% | 1 |
this is a silly response | 0.06% | 1 |
spent 28 years with a home and a garden | 0.06% | 1 |
none of the above apply to me | 0.06% | 1 |
i weed in the rain, easier to pull the root out of soffened soil | 0.06% | 1 |
no place for one | 0.06% | 1 |
what kind of stupid question is this? | 0.06% | 1 |
dv | 0.06% | 1 |
minimalist | 0.06% | 1 |
lol... a tad of these... | 0.06% | 1 |
6.
6.
For those who checked one or more boxes on the last question, have you already begun planning what you are growing next year? And Happy Gardening to All! Yes
15%
251 votes
No
24%
403 votes
Not Applicable
61%
1037 votes
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