Itās still half work for me but there are a nice part to my gardeningā¦ I definitely wouldnāt enjoy spending much time with it, the other parts of the garden is enough work (it produces a ton of wood to burn, much fruit to pick and pressure can, among others). But I have a tiny veggie patch (half full with flowers).
The soil isnāt good, we do what we can but I am happy with my salads of a few leaves, they are useful and my SO expected less 
My tomatoes are huge though. Well, on the plants we bought, the ones I grew from seeds are less great but they will yield some fruit too just later, less and smaller ones. But they are many and were cheap
I am not interested in the vast majority of vegs ever now (quite a big change from my huge veggie lover self in the past, I did vegetarian keto with 40g net carbs and I couldnāt squeeze my minimal amount of vegs into it. it didnāt help that I dislike green leavesā¦), I get joy from growing my vegs and my SO eats them. I do taste some especially the spring onions, they are nice with meat. But I mostly eat the leaves (onions are one of the exceptions. most green leaves tastes like grass to me or worse but onion leaves have their nice flavor).
I like new interesting vegs so I sowed some yellow beets (they look pathetic now but they are young and they look healthy just tiny). They are allegedly sweeter than normal ones so I obviously canāt eat them, the normal ones are already extremely sugary sweet and that bothers me in savory dishes.
I grow dill and parsley, I eat them occasionally myself. Herbs are another group to me, not normal green leaves as they have actual proper flavor but I donāt like or need most herbs. But dill is nice with sour cream or quark (if I donāt want to sweeten the latter, I should put dill into it), I often put some into my crustless quiche (never made quiche with crust as I learned about this dish after I tried carnivore. and I never bothered with crust when it wasnāt needed anyway). We mostly put the parsley into non-carni soups so I rarely eat it on carni but I tore off a tiny leaf while weeding today and I will eat that with my spicy pork today 
Itās good you wrote about electroculture (I still have no idea what that is), I wanted to look it up before but forgot.
I canāt even imagine a 7 pound cabbage. I clearly couldnāt grow a 7 oz one but I never even try with my current soil. I will be more aggressive with improving the soil this autumnā¦ We have a small garden with zillion trees, huge elevation and little sunlight, the only place for a tiny veggie patch with some sunlight was in the place of the useless pool (it just collected algae and I wonāt use chemicals) and that had the worst soil for some reason, not what the other parts had. And we didnāt change itā¦ We slowly improve it, we collect compost and buy black soil and sometimes cow manureā¦ But itās still not good enough. But the normal soil around here isnāt so great either. My family owned land with the best soil (no one sold it, you had to inherit or marry to the family with it) but it got took away. My Grandmaās garden had great black soil but it dried out quickly unlike the ancient one, Mom said. I donāt know the types of soil to explain it properly. So it was a bit of a pain during the usual 2 month droughts but it was good soil and the plants liked it. we couldnāt grow cucumbers because they had problems with the hot sun and no rain, watering our plants just isnāt as good. Not like we tried more than once.
I had sugar peas this year, mostly for tender pods as I can buy tender peas from the supermarket without all the work that doesnāt worth it. Not like itās much, peas donāt need much care, apparently. This area has rain regularly except last summer. This summer is nice. Some rare summers are wet, thankfully we have an A/C now as itās horrible when itās over 70% relative humidity and using the dehumifier makes the room even much more hot as it already is.
I donāt even try to grow needy plants, it wouldnāt worth it. Or cheap ones like cabbage. Very few are worth it considering my very very tiny veggie patch and little inclination to work with them. I canāt buy special ones (like my special carrots and beets this year or my āblackā tomatoes last year) and the tomato at the greengroceryās is tasteless (and itās hard to find home-grown ones to buy, maybe this year, we have a farmerās market now in the village! but itās still lovely to grab one from the garden when itās in seasonā¦). I have quite a few kinds of tomatoes this year, no black, sadly (it wasnāt black, more like some strange darker desaturated purple but it gave us a few tiny bulbs a week all summer. my current ones are normal so I need to wait until autumn. WHY tomato plants keep their big fruits green up for months IDK. the tiny ones quickly ripen. and I have no tiny tomatoes now. cherry tomato is the name, maybe?) but I have yellow ones. Thatās fun. I like to collect colors like this, I have yellow, red, purple (or that died? I definitely need some more) and black raspberries. The yellows and reds made pink at some point. But the light ones arenāt as tasty. Still good! But the darker ones are still better, richer.
But my garden work is mostly about fruits. Even if itās not picking them. The grapes and blackberries grow like crazy and we need to keep them in check. Itās more painful with the blackberries, itās plain impossible to avoid the thorns. And they are bad. My garden is full with various thorny plants for some reason. Itās fine, mostly but I must go near the blackberries quite often and they are one of the worst ones. Even my greengage tree (it is extremely tasty when a bit cooked, itās among my top favs. very meh without, I wouldnāt eat it that way, my SO does sometimes) has big thorns but they are few and not where I easily catch them. But the blackberries have them EVERYWHEREā¦ Okay, not on the fruits but even on the leaves! And I donāt even like the fruit. My SO does so he always persuades me when I just want to cut off the whole bunch sometimes It wouldnāt help enough as the neighbour have them too next to ours and they happily grow into our gardenā¦
But itās quite nice to play with the garden here and there. I just donāt want too much work. Most fruit trees give us zero work except picking the fruit.
Put in a bed in 1998 - dug a deep trench and filled it with good stuff for asparagus and topsoil. Right at the bottom I hit a layer of moist sand; figured the roots would love that.
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Even in a small garden! This is a bad year but not for all fruits 
), itās amazing when cooked, I donāt even understand, greengage isnāt supposed to be this goodā¦ And even I need sweetener for it so I will be able to eat in the future! And itās sour 