Survive Inflation: Grow These 5 Crops
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The real issue is how much did you spend on building all the structures, adding fertilizer and good soil by the time you’re done you have spent four times more than what you could’ve bought at the store. I love the hobby. The problem is it’s expensive.
Hello Ben, although I have an allotment which I haven't used for a few years, over the last few years I have done some container gardening on our small yard. Tomatoes and Cucumbers in greenhouse along with Runner beans, Cabbage, Peas, Potatoes, Radish, and Lettuce in containers and bags. With varying degrees of success however I accept its all trial and error. I'm quite keen on recycling and have turned hundreds of milk cartons into plant pots and pallets into growing troughs and become obsessed with composting which I do in forty-gallon refuse bins in fact I think next year I will be self-sufficient regarding compost. After watching loads of videos on YouTube I've really got the hang of it and can complete the process without any unpleasant smells. Hopefully going to try and do more with grass clippings next year so I'm hardly sending anything away in the green recycling bin to the council tip,
Enjoying the videos, thanks John.
I heard that the salad stuff sold in bags under protective atmospheres in supermarkets are really bad for you, having been washed in a plethora of chemicals.
is the avg yield and money saved per year?
High density planting can really produce a lot of food, if you plan do some stagger planting through the season. This year had almost 200 English cucumbers from a 3×6 foot area. In a 4×6 bed grew 5 cherry tomato plants had a few handfuls each day and was able to get preserve 27 pounds. Mini peppers in a 3×3 area was able to stop buying from the store for almost 3 months. I agree herbs are great money saver since a tiny pack cost a few bucks a pack
Can i grow courgettes in October ( uk)?
Love to dumpster dive I got an orchid which was almost dead I really love 💕 it and it has tripled in size and blooms from February til July it’s beautiful but I think the most expensive has been furniture and 2 ac units could have had a third but no room and I ran out of wipes they spilled yellow mustard on all the boxes so in order to put them in my car I had to clean them on the spot but I take the cracked totes now or the old flower buckets and drill holes in them I used to go every night but can’t afford the gas now plus we have to move so between reg chores packing and cleaning I’m exhausted hopefully once we get settled at our new home I can start my own raised garden and maybe a green house of my own one day. I love your channel giving me ideas of what to grow to get the most for my time and money for our family peppers 🌶 lettuce 🥬 zucchini, celery, tomatoes 🍅 🍇 grapes apples 🍏 pumpkins 🎃 I grew 2 lemon 🍋 trees from seed in planters they are approximately 4 ft tall I just separated them from one planter to 2 this year but they’ve never bloomed my neighbor said it’s because I had them in the same pot?? Is this true? Will they bloom now that they are separated and do you have grapes 🍇?? Or fruits 🍉?
Thanks for sharing.
There’s a mushroom farm near me that offers their compost for free! Amazing for growing squash
for southern hotter climate viewers please take into consideration that hot peppers do significantly better than sweet peppers in the summers.
I recently dumpster-dove a hand-crank kitchen beater. Fully intact, completely functional, only a little rusty. I went great lengths to restore it and it works better than most electric beaters you can buy today. Also doesnt need any power, and with a gasless winter looming in germany I'm all to happy to be able to work without the need of electricity.
I love this video! I wonder if you could do a video on each of these crops on how to get seeds from your own produce/shop bought foods? I've been thinking of doing something similar on my channel and would love to pass on anything I discover in doing this with you!
Somebody was doing a remodel on their house and I got enough wood for a 10×20 deck. Only had to pay for the cement blocks and hardware. Woot!
potatoes are quite expensive in Australia atm..so its worth me growing them..great video!
Thank you : )
Brilliant!!
We have just been given a large double glazed window/door. Planning to make it into a cold frame for spring seedlings 👍
Everyone please give the climate zone or country in wich you live, if you give tips for growing.
Clear berry punnets make great windowsill mini greenhouses!
At the street on trash day, I asked the neighbor for the four Earth Box planters he had put out to be thrown away. I was given all four. No guts for them but I crafted pseudo self-watering gear for the inside of landscape fabric, chicken wire, and short lengths of plastic pipe (like wicking tubs sort of). It worked and cost about $12 but I still have pieces left from crafting. I also have a bunch of 20" plastic pots with saucers from the big box store Home Depot that cost I think only $11.00 ea. two years ago.
Yep. We've had continual tomatoes for months! Paul, Jr. makes tomato soup every couple of weeks. I never tire of fresh tomatoes. Tons of mint, basil, thyme, oregano, squash, watermelon have saved us mucho dinero and our produce tastes much better than store bought.
I would like toadd curly kale. I have flat kale now
Well Ben, guess what? Ready? Ya know the squirrels ate my spring garden…Well, hurricane Ian took out a lot of my fall garden. So, hopefully, tomorrow, I am going to throw the cleanup of the yard aside and get my garden replanted. 🤗🤗
I live in the Unite states and if you have a truck you can often get large amounts of compost for cheap or free. Almost every city these days has a yard waste management area and I live in an area that has 3 small city's near each other. Now all this is first come first serve and it is available until it is gone. one place it is free but they have the smallest yield, the mid sized area is 40 bucks per bucket full (huge tractor/backhoe) about 2.5 cubic yards, the 3rd place is a mid sized city and if you are a resident of the city it is 10 buck for a bucket full or 20 bucks if you are a non resident. The buckets will fill up your truck bed. They also sell mulch for the same prices. This is a cheap way to get compost if you are just starting out or expanding your garden and haven't been able to make enough compost of your own. Now the compost might not be 100% clean you may have to shift through it a bit to make sure you are not finding nails or pieces of plastic etc but I would rather do that than spend a fortune on little bags of compost to amend my soil.
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I love you, Ben! You're hilarious!!
In my first year gardening, the tomatoes have done very well, but all my squash got decimated by the squash bugs. I think I’ll be more careful about what I plant next year 😅
Got one red pepper the other day here in Spain coat me 1.05€ prices have definitely gone up.
1:35 thank me later
Americans are in shock over soaring grocery prices due to inflation.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qy9EpqJhEsI
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