Garden Fatigue- or on-going program

A while back, Glenn, the national director for DOOR, likened the running of the DOOR program to growing a garden not building a building. It's not something we build and it's done. Instead it's the kind of thing that takes constant care.
In the case of my garden, it's time to remove the seeds atop the old lettuce stalks, dig under the unproductive tomato vines, keep spraying the pepper plant leaves, plant the new mint and start new seeds. Florida is supposed to have 3 growing seasons. Let's try to get as many as we can. Square foot gardening should indicate we can keep growing all year.
But the warning comes in the example of my mother. She planted much too big of a garden. She's 74 this year and honestly she does not need the production of the 20 or so tomato plants she has. She and my dad cannot eat the remaining 24 watermelons. She canned as many of the green beans as she could and they keep coming. She's been at this since April and she's pooped.
If we run programs in a way that we're overworked, we'll wear out before the harvest is finished for the season.

Basil Plants per Pesto recipe

It takes 8 basil plants to produce enough leaves for the 2 cups called for in the recipe I have for Pesto. I am totally blessed that I happened to have planted enough seeds for 8 plants. I'll mark that up to God for the help. Of course I should note that my basil variety produces broad leaves about 2 inches wide and 3 1/2 long approximately. I'll make more this weekend.

Unidentified egg sacks under leaves

The habenero plants I started in May are getting along fine and a few flowers starting to appear. However, this month they're being invaded by white eggs sacks. I haven't been able to identify them yet but they maybe aphids. We'll figure that out later. Until then, a simple home remedy is working great. I've sprayed them with a solution of about 40% white vinegar and 60% water. it is the same solution we used to spray wayward trails of ants when they've come in the house. The ants are to lay down the fearful hormone trail and never come back. That has only been somewhat helpful at best. But the egg sacks respond as hoped. The sacks shrivel and go away. The white flying pests that hang around also go away. And that's all I want. Leave my peppers alone so they can bloom and grow and produce some peppers.