Ever grown your own food? You should try it. It can be super rewarding, and fun. Your little plants become your babies as you nurture them into adulthood… Until one day, they’re ready to be released into the big, wide world that is your dining room table. Of course, before they get there, there’s always time for a proud #Farmlife or #Blessed Instagram post to brag about the literal fruits of your labor.
But as with most things in life, gardening, or farming, doesn’t always go according to plan. And expectations certainly do not always meet reality. For every idyllic photo of someone holding a perfectly shaped pumpkin, there are a dozen people crying (or laughing) over their dreams that turned into duds.
Many can be found in an online community ironically called Mighty Harvest. It’s a wall of hilariously epic fails that prove harvesting is not always the satisfying end to a season of hard work. Sometimes it’s just a baffling mess that leaves you with more questions than vegetables.
Bored Panda has put together a list of the best harvesting fails for you to scroll through while you cautiously watch your carrots out of the corner of your eye. We also teach you how to grow your own food from kitchen scraps. And you’ll find that info between the funny images.
#1 My First Carrot
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#2 My Hamster Mo Shall Eat Like A King This Winter!
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#3 Lemonade For Everyone
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#4 Some Lemon Water For You Sir?
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#5 Don’t Worry Guys, I’ll Make Dinner Tonight
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#6 Finally, A Pumpkin That Ants Can Carve
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#7 My Eggplant Decided To Give It One More Go And Blessed Me With This Generous Bounty As Its Last Hurrah!
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#8 What Am I Going To Do With All These Leeks?
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#9 Send Me Your Butternut Squash Soup Recipes
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#10 Any Recommended Recipes For Strawberry Jam?
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#11 One Turned Out Big And One Really Tiny
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#12 Behold My Giant Cucamelon Harvest!
For those wondering, they cucamelons taste like cucumber mixed with lime. This my first year successfully growing them. They are tasty and adorable!
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#13 Gonna Make Some Corn On The Cob Tonight
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#14 My First Lemon >*
I got my first lemon from a meyers lemon tree I got from menards earlier this year! I wasn’t expecting it to blossom this year but lo and behold! A lemon! I didn’t pull it off either, I gently touched it cause I was shocked it was yellow already and it just fell off the bone!
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#15 Officially The Largest Asparagus Producer In The Country, Planning Exports Soon, Will Feed The Planet
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#16 Going To Eat Like A King
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#17 Garlic For Months. The Village Will Never Starve Ever Again With Me As The Farmer
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#18 I Broke Through Frozen Dirt With My Hands For These
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#19 Our Village Shall Feast Upon Omelette Tonight!
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#20 Behold This Mighty Harvest!
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#21 Lemonade For All!!
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#22 At Long Last… My Dream Of Homemade Tortillas Will Be Realised
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#23 Five Years Of Waiting For This Dragonfruit
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#24 My Singular Potato That I Grew Years Back, All Fixed Up
Ngl. Legitimately delicious. Best bite of potato I’ve ever had.
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#25 My Attempt To Grow Watermelon
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#26 Made A Batch Of French Fries
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#27 Bounty! One Single Blueberry On An Entire Patch Of Bushes!
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#28 Blueberry Harvest
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#29 Pepper Plant Produced Some Chokers!!
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#30 My Onion Harvest Ready To Last Through The Cold Winter
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#31 I Grew “Micro Gold” Tomatoes In My Hydroponic Unit. This Is A Very Good Harvest Given My Two Plants Were Both Under 4 Inches Tall
That’s a US quarter in the middle.
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#32 We Feast On The Carrots
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#33 Look Upon My Harvest And Be In Awe
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#34 Stunted Basil Plant Finally Gave Me A Sizable Leaf
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#35 I Can Finally Make A Giant Pot Of Split Pea Soup For Dinner
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#36 Got My First Lime From The Tree Today!
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#37 After 4 Months, My Mighty Onions Are Here To Cure World Hunger
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#38 This Bell Pepper Has Reached Maximum Size
This is supposed to be a red bell pepper. It decided it was done growing before it even got as big as my thumbnail. And I have small hands- my thumbnail is less than half an inch in length.
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#39 The Garden Provides
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#40 I’m Going To Need To Learn How Can All The Tomato Sauce I’m Going To Make – Any Tips?
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#41 It’s Spicy Though
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#42 A Singular Pea
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#43 Potatoes For Life
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#44 Look At These Mighty Potatoes That Will Sustain Us Through Winter
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#45 Come Hungry, Leave Just As Hungry
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#46 Smallest Garlic Clove I’ve Ever Seen
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#47 5 Years And Its First Fruit!! Tonight We Feast
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#48 I Fed My Family For Days
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#49 Planted A Hundred Chives Seeds. Grew 1 Chive. My Mashed Potatoes Are Going To Be So Good!
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#50 Behold, My First Ripe Fish Pepper This Year!
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#51 Accidentally Grew This Massive Tomato! Whatever Will I Do With It!
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#52 It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
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