• Blackout
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    191 year 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.

    • enkers
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      111 year 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.

      • Psychadelligoat
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        81 year ago

        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.

    • @lgmjon64@lemmy.world
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      111 year ago

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

    • @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      11 year 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.