Posted on 04/05/2010 11:30:57 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Only if it’s Michelle Obama’s garden. It’s planted, grown, & harvested all in about 3 weeks.
right up until the nanny state bans backyard gardening as “dangerous” or whatever.
So will ammo.
It is a constant battle. Mostly against bugs and rodents. I finally had to go greenhouse.
The greenhouse cost me a small fortune.
The little lady grows a few vegetables as a subset of her overall gardening, but the things I appreciate the most are the fresh herbs. It’s really nice to be in the kitchen making dinner and pausing for a quick step outside to collect some ingredients.
If I were to add up all the Miracle Gro, seeds, Miracle Gro, raised beds, Miracle Gro, seedlings and Miracle Gro my wife buys, each cherry tomato costs us a buck.
Buying from my local farmer saves me money. He does his job and I do mine. Any family gardening is strictly for fun.
Oh, heck no. But I do it anyway.
We had our first garden in years last summer - grew tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, green beans, green peppers, banana peppers, squash, zuchinni, okra and more. All on my deck in 15 gallon buckets that trees come in that I got from a friend of mine that is a landscaper.
We ate fresh produce all summer, froze and canned a ton of stuff that we ate on all winter. We also gave a lot to friends.
My total investment with bags of dirt, seeds and plants were less than $100. I probably got $500+ at least worth of produce. And as a bonus it was all fresh and 100% organic. This year, I don’t have to buy dirt so it will save even more money.
Without a doubt it saves a ton of money.
Ping
Get her a Farmville account.
Last year we did tomatoes, strawberries, peas and herbs. Cost us a small fortune.
This year we are doing strawberries and picking at someone else’s farm when the time is right. Now THAT saved us money and we just ate the last of the frozen blueberries we picked last year.
We thought about buying pre-planted pots from a farm near us. They let you reserve what you want. However, this year they added “meat” rabbits. I could see my daughters crying over the cages until we had a dozen bunnies in the car eating the new plants all the way home. Bad news all the way around.
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Can you grow bullets?
Can I visit your farm?
LOL
In general, I would have been better off taking all of the seeds I have planted and boiling them in a pot as a soup...
The difference for me isn’t so much the money as it is the taste.
If you’ve never had fresh cooked corn or home grown tomatoes, you’re missing something special...
I did one of those upsidedown hanging tomato things (from Lowes, not TV).
I gave away tomatos we had so many.
Took about 20 minutes to set up. Cost: $7.50 each. $.99 for plants. Some left over miracle grow dirt.
When I was rowing up my family shared a large garden with our neighbors and had numerous apple trees. I remember well the hours my Mother spent making pickles, canning applesauce and freezing sweet corn. Yes her stuff was good, but the amount of work it took was considerable. It would also be hard and likely expensive to accumulate things that would be needed to make this stuff like pickle crocks, large canners, mason jars, food mills etc. I remember dill pickles taking a special jar lid that was zinc coated with a glass insert to resist the vinegar and these were sealed with a red rubber gasket. I'm not sure these are even being made anymore.
Did you plant cherry or regular tomatoes?
If you go with Open Polinated seed you can knock 75% off the per packet price.
Check out FEDCO Seeds in Maine. These are mild lefty’s, kinda left over hippies, and the seed is cheap.
I save money every year, and the food tastes too good. I have a hard time going back to supermarket at the end of the year.
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