I've been growing stuff for bit now but very little has actually made it in the dirt. I work and go to school leaving at 4:30am and get home anywhere from 5-9pm depending on the day.
Back in February I had started close to 1500 seedlings that I intended to sell as a way of raising money for the business. In the Weeds Produce, LLC is my companies name and I will market my produce under. If you've ever worked in a restaraunt then its a term you're familiar with already and likely won't forget.
So anyway, as school and work drug on, the plants really took a beating from all of the neglect. They were on the big concrete pad where my truck is in the first pic. After many, many days of wilting, high winds that seem constant here, storms with 40-60mph winds and hail, bugs, etc well, they just started to look sad. That depressed me and it got so bad that I wouldn't park upfront and instead drive around to the back and just walk in the back.
Last week, I trashed what should have made me a net profit of close to $2,000 but instead cost me close to $700. Maybe more if I figured in a decent salary.
I have now started a lot of things over for this year. We have a long growing season here so I should be ok on the things that will make the most money.
All of the money I make will go back into the business this year so that I can buy a greenhouse and other things needed for next year.
I am not taking any classes this summer so I can have more time available to grow and get these things done right. I still have a lot to do. In the morning I will bury 220' of 1"pvc so I can get water to the big garden from my well. I should be able to get 40psi out that far with no problem but I have 100' rows that will get water off drip irrigation. If my psi drops off too much, then I'll need to change stuff on the pump.
I currently have in the ground, carrots, corn, okra, potatoes, honeydew, yellow watermelon, eggplant, peanuts, bell peppers, jalapeno, cucumber, onions ( with a few hundred more going in tomorrow) thompson seedless grapes and 17 tomato plants.
Ideally I want about 125 - 150 tomato plants in the dirt that are mostly big round, red maters because where I'm at is mostly older people and I think its what they'll eat and buy. Bell peppers and okra should also have the cars stopping on the side of the road.
In the coming year, assuming I can get the commercial greenhouse up and going, I will be able to grow year round and be able to supply some restaraunts in the Charleston area. Eventually I wan't to be big enough, or small and profitable enough, that I can grow enough on the side to regularly supply the shelter that I work for and small struggling food pantries with a steady supply of fresh veggies.
That's the sum of all the parts and kinda where I'm at now.
