• Blackout@kbin.run
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    6 months ago

    Have you tasted store bought vegetables? Farmers market may be grown, may be store bought. I have 2 4x2ft planters full of veggies, out $200 this year setting it up. Next year just the price of seeds.

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      6 months ago

      I grew up hating tomatoes until we started growing our own. It’s like it’s an entirely different food

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      6 months ago

      Seeds and amendments. You gotta add more nutrients to the soil or else your yields will start to suffer. Although, there’s a lot of permaculture ways to add nutrients for free.

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        Unless you live somewhere with 0 soil quality or literally never do any work to fertilize it’s not that much extra cost to fertilize and keep soil doing well

        Run a compost heap and you’re practically going to supply yourself with everything needed for free if you can scale it enough (which is like, 2 2x4 beds and remembering to dump organic food remnants too)

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          Oh for sure. You don’t need much. I just recently watched a cool video about tossing all your weeds in a couple of small water barrels to make liquid fertilizer. It doesn’t take a lot.

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      We grow the vast majority of our own veggies, eggs and chicken. Our kids hate store bought food, it’s even hard to go to restaurants. We sell a little bit from an on site farm stand to help pay for supplies mostly. Our seeds were $600 this year though. It’s a rather large and diverse garden.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I ate a garden grown cucumber for the first time. I couldn’t believe how refreshing it tastes!

      The supermarket version tastes like filler food.

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      6 months ago

      I can’t stand the produce from Walmart. They have to be doing something bad to it for it to taste so bland and go bad so quickly.