Most people don’t aim for their gardens to grow high value crops at a low constant expense.
Organic rosemary appears to be around £0.20 per sprig, I bought a plant for under £5 several years ago and that is my entire expense on buying rosemary. I have several of them growing now all propagated from that plant. Easily in profit on that.
Of course if you factor in other garden costs you could say it’s a negative overall, but I didn’t have to buy them if I was only focusing on the costs, I also got some things because it looks nicer. Like stone tiles for pathways and wood borders. If I was going all in on running it as cheap as possible then I would have spent nothing at all in the past few years.
A jar that is years old is going to be shit quality compared to fresh.
I don’t know if you saw the part where I said there are ZERO ongoing costs for growing the herbs, you can also get them for free if you share with others. So it’s entirely possible to grow them for nothing at all.
Home grown stuff is going to be more comparable or even better than organic produce so you should probably look at that to get a comparison on price.
If quality doesn’t matter at all to you then sure just live off the cheapest rice and oats at £0.50/kg.
Most people don’t aim for their gardens to grow high value crops at a low constant expense.
Organic rosemary appears to be around £0.20 per sprig, I bought a plant for under £5 several years ago and that is my entire expense on buying rosemary. I have several of them growing now all propagated from that plant. Easily in profit on that.
Of course if you factor in other garden costs you could say it’s a negative overall, but I didn’t have to buy them if I was only focusing on the costs, I also got some things because it looks nicer. Like stone tiles for pathways and wood borders. If I was going all in on running it as cheap as possible then I would have spent nothing at all in the past few years.
and I have a jar of it that lasts me years that I got for 3 bucks.
it’s never cheaper to grow your own produce.
A jar that is years old is going to be shit quality compared to fresh.
I don’t know if you saw the part where I said there are ZERO ongoing costs for growing the herbs, you can also get them for free if you share with others. So it’s entirely possible to grow them for nothing at all.
Home grown stuff is going to be more comparable or even better than organic produce so you should probably look at that to get a comparison on price.
If quality doesn’t matter at all to you then sure just live off the cheapest rice and oats at £0.50/kg.