Is gardening worth it? Chatgpt says tomatoes, peppers, onions/garlic and lettuce are easy and cheap to grow.Does anyone have gardening experience and suggestions? Should someone start doing it or is it not worth the effort?
It's not going to be cost effective since you have to use your own water, soil, fertilizer and time. Buying shit at the supermarket is always going to be cheaper.If you are still interested just try. It's not going to cost you an arm and a leg and can be very rewarding.
>>21909821Are you saying this from experience? What's rewarding about it compared to buying things from the supermarket?
>>219098261.) the fact that you grew it yourself and can probably do it again (survival-larp)2.) pretty much all vegetables taste WAY better when they are freshly harvested
whether something is easy to grow depends on your climate, property, and the type of commitment you have.personally i think herbs, lettuce, and root vegetables are easier to grow than tomatoes, peppers, and garlic.
>>21909821NTA, my water is free (or "free") and I grow from seeds that I buy for like 5 dollars totalthe soil is probably the most expensive part, maybe 20 bucks, but then I get tomatoes for months, literally my first harvest pays for everything and it's way better qualityGardening is fun and watching things you put in the soil finally yield fruit is an awesome feeling, like a miniature child you can eat without societal scorn
Just be prepared to lose your entire harvest to random fungus infections. Gardening has made me appreciate modern agriculture a lot more.
>>21909844>tomatoes for monthsThe problem is they all ripen in the same month
We only grow things that are either ridiculously expensive for no good reason or that we can't find easily. Tomatoes and lettuce are not worth the space, imo.We grow squash specifically for the flowers because those are uncommon/expensive where we live. We grow lovage and borage because they just aren't sold in stores here. I want to grow hopniss but I can't find the seeds. I also wanna grow baby corn but neither one of us is familiar with how to grow and harvest corn.
>>21909826It's rewarding when you manage to actually grow something edible. Anyone on earth can grow a plant to some degree but to grow a plant that gives you food back is harder than it seems to the commoner. People either over-water or under-water. Over fertilized and burn the roots. Letting it bake in the sun and not giving it shade. Once you figure it out it becomes second nature and you'll have your green thumb and then you can grow your own food with almost no effort at all.
>>21909794Growing your own veggies is absolutely worth it, and gives a great sense of self-accomplishment when you can literally see/taste the fruits of your labor.One simple and big advantage is being able to have companion plants that actively improve the taste/harvest of your plants. Growing rosemary/basil alongside your tomatoes makes them taste better, and having marigolds in with them helps them as well, while also attracting pollinators.
>>21909794>>>/out/hgm>Is gardening worth it?Extremely stupid question in any context but its very enjoyable and the products will always taste much better than anything you can get in the supermarket, its really fun to watch them grow also. How much effort you need to put in depends on the plant type, if you are starting out then chilis are very comfy, easy and cheap to grow and theres a lot of varieties, its starting to become late in the year to sow them though so start soon but it depends on your region, you can always buy plants from plant nurseries and continue growing them.
>>21909850>What is a greenhouse
>>21909850I grow tiny semideterminant tomatoes that don't take very long from flower to fruitthe larger/beefier you go, the more labor- and space-intensive it getsfor reference, I only have a few window boxes since I live on the 3rd floor but once everything was set and planted, all I did was water everything once a daypic was last year after a month or so of transferring
>>21909856Thanks AI
>>21909859But does it even make enough food? Cherry tomatoes... Come on, could that really be enough to satiate one person? To make some salads?
>>21909897I'd get 40-60 of them every few weeks, more than enough to cook a mealthis was with 4 plants, 2 of which got fucked up by wind early in the season and yielded way less than the others
>>21909850Tomatoes can (and should) be canned if you have enough to do so. My family has a full garden including tomatoes and they have lasted our entire family until early spring. We rarely buy tomatoes other than the magnum bushels that grocery stores sell for cheap at the end of the harvesting season for liquidation purposes. We either can those too or make liters of tomato sauce with them.
>>21909897i think growing your own is generally more about supermarket veg having almost no flavor
>>21909794Absolutely, if you know what to grow in what type of soil. Floury potatoes need clay. Thyme needs a Mediterranean climate and chalk. Basil needs hot days and cold nights.My garden is full of shadow so spinach, radishes and bear garlic work really. You can't just walk in and expect miracles. It's very wet where I live, snails completely destroy lettuce here.>>21909826Better flavour, actual nutrients instead of water shaped into vegetables, more happiness. Eating well is satisfying. Instinct and all that jazz. There's the opposite too: for Belgian endives you don't even need a garden, you'll get FAR better produce than what the shops sell: https://keplite.com/belgian-endives-au-gratin/#g>>21909850That's why people make passata, apple syrup, dried figs, dried apple slices etc.
>>21909881Nah, but go ahead and think that if it makes you feel clever.I collected some black raspberries that were growing wild on my property, I'll have them along side some heritage ones that my great grandma started.Fuuuck phoneposting btw
>>21909794I grow potatoes. Buy a bag from the shop, get ten times as much at harvest.
>>21909922>I collected some black raspberries...My ass. You collected some data to give the previous response because you're obviously not human. Thanks for talking to me though, for what it's worth
>>21909923Difficult harvest though. Too much hard digging
>>21909929I grow them in buckets, literally just tip the soil out into another bucket and pick the potatoes up.
>>21909932That works? I thought they would feel crowded and die of claustrophobia. How big?
>>21909794Only do it if it fits with your lifestyle because you have to put consistent effort in.It's best to do watering/fertilizing/pruning/etc in the morning so give yourself some extra time each day>>21909929You need to have loose soil to get good potato harvests in the first place. If you have to dig hard at all then the potatoes will also have trouble swelling up against all the compacted soil.
>>21909936Can't remember the size, I think they are 40litre buckets.
>>21909926I'm sure a machine has better penmanship than I do.
>>21909953Nigga get that out of your garden before it spreads everywhere
>>21909956I can manage raspberry suckers, I'm planning on (eventually) making a few hugelkultur mounds on the hillside for them to thrive/not fight against the blackberries, but I want some in the garden proper.>>21909929I have a bunch of old grow bags that're something like thirty inches wide and a foot deep. I fill 'em with a fifty-fifty compost/soil mix and usually put four seed potatoes per bag, had pretty good results with them while being easy to harvest.
