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Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, various herbs, peas, green beans..etc. It's not that these were unproductive, I got a good amount of vegetables and herbs from m
by genocidicbunny 4y ago
Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, various herbs, peas, green beans..etc.
It's not that these were unproductive, I got a good amount of vegetables and herbs from my garden, but it would have been much cheaper to hit up the farmers market to get the same amount of stuff. My anecdote was more speaking to the capriciousness of farming/gardening. Time and effort make no guarantee of the result.
- nicoburns 4y ago> it would have been much cheaper to hit up the farmers market to get the same amount of stuff It seems to me generally true in the modern world that it's cheaper to buy mass-produced goods than to make things yourselves. There are exceptions, but they're increasingly rare.
- genocidicbunny 4y agoI mentioned the farmers market purposefully. The ones I visit tend to not be mass-produced stuff, but even with the commensurate price increase that carries, it's still cheaper than anything I've grown myself.
- nicoburns 4y agoI'd imagine even a farmer's market is likely to have crops grown on a scale larger than you are growing them, even if that scale is still much smaller than mainstream commercial farms.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y ago> Time and effort make no guarantee of the result. True enough! Growing things successfully is all about education. Actually growing what you grew might have been next to free with the right know-how (composting and natural alterations for good soil, harvesting seeds from organic foods, natural pest control, etc). But of course you don't know that until you get years worth of education!
- Gordonjcp 4y agoBet they tasted pretty good though!