My First Garden In The US

Hi Veggie Gardeners,

I am new to all this gardening stuff and recently I decided to start a garden . I wanted to get away from chemicals in my food.
My name is Grace and I live in central FL. It was therapeutic for me while I cleared land and planted veggys and just watching them grow.
I have now started to reap a few things and I am wondering what I did wrong. I had large cucumber vines but got three large cucumbers and they had worms in them.

I had four tomatoes and they all had worms. My corn was small like my thumb. Caterpillars ate a lot of my leaves.
I tried several things including soap water and my plants got burned a little.I wish I could have had a better first
experience but maybe being here I could learn a few things.

Thank you for having me here