That is absurd. My garden can save thousands of $$$ and it feeds my family and several others all year, every year. A garden is as dependable as you make it.
>>That is absurd. My garden can save thousands of $$$ and it feeds my family and several others all year, every year. A garden is as dependable as you make it.<<
I have too many posts explaining what I meant by that to go back over them now. May I suggest you review what it takes to keep your garden fresh? Gasoline to transport seeds/soil/etc? Soil? Pesticides? Tools to do weeding? Weed-killer (some do some don’t)? A good climate (in most of the USA a garden is seasonal) or a greenhouse?
All these things will be unavailable “post collapse.”
Just a thought but a garden is a great idea for a lot of reasons. Tomatoes and other salad fixings from a home garden (I love home grown peppers and they are pretty easy to grow) taste FANTASTIC and will sustain you.
But I also respectfully ask, could you feed yourself and your family more than a month or so from your garden? If so, you have a farm, not a garden.
I am just asking the hard questions than each of us need to answer.