How much of your daily calorie intake do you truly get from your gardens?

[SSanf]

Well now, that site is interesting. If i did as well as he does, by his numbers, I should be able to produce about 600 pounds of food. That sounds like a lot until you remember that there are 3 of us. Hum...200 pounds of food per person is a bit over a half pound each per day. That is a help but I think it would not sustain anyone. I guess that is really fantastic information. I need to both expand and increase the productivity big time.

[Nightside_Eclipse]

Originally Posted by SSanf

Well now, that site is interesting. If i did as well as he does, by his numbers, I should be able to produce about 600 pounds of food. That sounds like a lot until you remember that there are 3 of us. Hum...200 pounds of food per person is a bit over a half pound each per day. That is a help but I think it would not sustain anyone. I guess that is really fantastic information. I need to both expand and increase the productivity big time.

Any little bit helps, I know I don't have the time and help that guy does to garden so intensively, but almost any time you plant veggies you get your money back and often save money, so long as you do it wisely and realize you don't need to go crazy on a 1000 dollar tiller and all the fancy high tech crap.

[roro]

Originally Posted by Nightside_Eclipse

Any little bit helps, I know I don't have the time and help that guy does to garden so intensively, but almost any time you plant veggies you get your money back and often save money, so long as you do it wisely and realize you don't need to go crazy on a 1000 dollar tiller and all the fancy high tech crap.

yep!

here's a thing on "get rich slowly" that shows about how much you can save by having a garden.

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/20...n-really-save/

[Nightside_Eclipse]

I planted about a half a packet of bell pepper seeds as "first steps" experiment this spring, cost of the packet was a little over a dollar so lets say I planted 50 cents worth of seeds, I think I harvested maybe 10 or so bell peps from the two plants I ended up transplanting (the plant is still producing but the cool weather has stunted them).

Average price per bell pep is about 50 cents around here so that's a savings of $5.00 worth of peppers for 50 cents worth of seeds.

Figure in a few dollars for a 25 pack of peat transplanting pots and maybe 5 bucks for a bag of potting soil for the containers and I'm still in the positive.

I scrounged up an old container for them so that was free, and the soil can be re-used next season, plus the pepper plant itself will be composted and re-used as well.

The plants were transplanted WAY late as well, so if I had done things right I could have gotten probably 20 peppers from each plant.