My father had a magnificent one - grew just about everything one can think of. Absolutely nothing like fresh veggies plucked and eaten the same day.

We get too little sun here - between being upstate NY and surrounded by mature trees, we are lucky if we get 4 1/2 hours of direct sun during the peak of the summer. I tried growing crops, but they were very leggy & thin and we had no real yield. The ground here needs constant work - very sandy and poor.

So I content myself with flowers and evergreens. But I must be picky over the variety I grow.

I can no longer sit on the ground . . . can't stay there long and getting up is getting harder. I have a folding garden bench that I drag around with me. Not the same as sitting on the ground, working the soil with my hands & the sun on my back (which I love!), but at least I can still garden.