Garden Savings? April 2009
May 16th, 2009 at 3:37am |
This began because Husband sent me the Get Rich Slowly website for a cost analysis on home gardening. It 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).
First harvest
We harvested our first spinach and leafy greens. So far I’ve harvested
- 1/2 head of miscellaneous lettuce and spinach
We have had tiny one person side salad with the baby greens. The romaine we typically buy at the local grocery store is usually $1.98 per bag, which contains 3 “hearts” of romaine. So our harvest was worth about $.50.
Time spent: 7 hours (includes the trellis building time)
TOTAL THIS MONTH
| Month | Time | Cost | Harvest |
| January | no record | no record | no record |
| February | no record | no record | no record |
| March | 5 hours | $143.00 | – |
| April | 7 hours | $0 | $.50 |
| May | hours | $ | $ |
| June | hours | $ | $ |
| July | hours | $ | $ |
| August | hours | $ | $ |
| September | hours | $ | $ |
| October | hours | $ | $ |
| November | hours | $ | $ |
| December | hours | $ | $ |
| Totals | 12 hours | $143.00 | $0.50 |
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