Yup, for now, I am telling people I am in the R&D phase and I am willing to sacrifice a bit of resources and time in order to learn and know how to do it my way. The area is about 1000 square meters and it takes a lot of labor just to keep the grass and thorns from taking over permanently. If you're doing it manually, which I am. And so with watering, too.
The carrots and beet turned out quite fine, except for the fact I wasted a bit of seeds not spacing them well enough so that each plant could grow near its full potential (in the case of the red beet).
But I found out that I care for the trees a lot. It's R&D but with some...contaminating levels of attachment.
!BEER