Beautiful Aquannie, everything looks so pretty and healthy. I'm growing my Victory Garden in stackers, pots and growbags. I didn't get optimum results last year, because I was too much of a newbie, but when my husband came home with some sad looking okra at $2.99 a lb. I knew it was time to do something. So Iplanted okra. We must have gotten 50 lbs of okra off those plants over many months, so I figured right there we saved $150.00, all I did was dig a trench and throw in a little worm castings and some potting soil to loosen it up and tossed in the seeds, watered it sometimes and away it went. I still have a bunch of seeds left from that $1.50 pack for this year.
I plan to weigh my produce and compare the price to the grocer's prices to see how much I save this year. I'm trying to grow a bunch of gourmet type and oddballs, some of which are hard to find and very expensive items and do a rough calculation that way this time. We ate a lot of eggplant, tomatoes, yard long beans, squash and okra last year and didn't buy that many veggies, though I am going to have a lot more diversity in the garden this time. (got sick of eggplant and okra after awhile).
I won't be adding in the cost of materials to my calculations because much of what I have can be used for many years and I figure not having to eat the Frankenfood from the grocer's produce department is worth at least that much in health benefits.
