>>584291> we're talking huge commitment to the garden, too, aka no full time job on the side.This depends on how much you're into doing it.
Growing up, my parents both had full-time blue collar jobs yet the entire back 1/3 of our yard was a garden, as well as current bushes along the sides and two black cherrie trees, a golden delicious apple tree, a sour cherry tree (used for home-made liquor) and a plum tree.
I remember my dad and god father stringing up huge nets over the black cherrie trees to keep birds out (with my dad sitting on the back patio drinking Pabst and shooting at them with a BB gun) and he had a pesticide sprayer that he'd use on the apple tree and we'd end up with shit-loads of fruit and mom would can all kinda stuff out'a the garden for use during the winter (I must have taken 150 Mason jars to the recycling center after she passed away).
Of course my parents were Depression babies and WWII survivors, (as were all their friends) so they were much tougher then people are nowadays and what we'd consider to be a huge pain in the ass, they saw as just normal everyday life.
