Garden Savings? March 2009
Husband sent me the Get Rich Slowly website for a cost analysis on home gardening. This encouraged me to see how much we save (or lose) in a year in our edible garden. I am going to try and post monthly with the cost and benefit. This will in no way be exact or comprehensive, rather a rough estimate (mostly for my own records).
So far its all spending. And I’m not recording the time spent very well, it is a very ROUGH estimate.
Since the beginning of the year we have spent (these are rounded off at dollars):
Seeds and plants $68
Compost $13
Trellis materials $37
Seed trays $5
Sluggo $20
TOTAL $143
Time spent: 5 hours
Note: We have an established plum tree, 2 cherry trees, 2 apple trees, a strawberry bed, a bunch of walking onions, a TON of leeks, and a whole lotta seeds already. I will include the “profit” from these, but I will try to do so separately. I will also do some seed swapping and this should be the last year of buying trellising, (hopefully) compost, and more than ten dollars worth of seeds.
I’m interested in your results. Hopefully it’ll pan out a little better than the $90 strawberry jam I made last year. The taste is beyond compare with store bought, but c’mon!
Walking onions? Wow! Now I see why you have a fence around your house.