My Green Thumb

So, I've been playing around with gardening for a few years now. Ever since my son showed interest in growing vegetables, I've been trying to make it work. It started with a garden that had been put together behind my house by my mother years ago. Unfortunately nothing grew very well there. We planted a few different things, I remember planting sunflowers, beans, peas, and some other stuff, but none of it ever grew. The soil was too sandy, and it was full of roots from weeds that had sapped all the nutrients.
Some time after that, I built a greenhouse. It was originally a small, free-standing garage frame that wrapped in plastic and put in a sunny spot in the backyard. I planted a lot of different seeds, built an irrigation system, and waited. To my dismay, barely anything produced. We had onions in a big bucket that grew and then seemed to die out, strawberries that never even flowered, and tomatoes that we hung from the rafters which grew like crazy but never showed any sign of fruiting. We had a pepper plant that produced 2 peppers. The cucumbers finally gave me something when I transplanted them into a larger container. But everything else failed. In time, I added raised beds, planted garlic over the winter, and let it sit till it got warmer.
Now it's warmer, and there are signs of life! The garlic appears to be flourishing, some of the onions are really promising, and the strawberries already seem to be showing signs of producing fruit. Even outside the greenhouse, the blueberry bushes I wrote off for dead after one too many times of being trampled by my son are bulging with new life.
I'm proud of my green thumb. I know I've made many mistakes in my garden, but I've learned something new from each one. I planted my tomatoes in larger hanging containers, with tons of room for the roots to grow. The cucumbers have a huge bed to spread out in. I've planted multiple pepper plants, of different varieties, and have secured all of the plants in the yard with cages to keep The Boy from destroying them.