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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 654096" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>I should mention, I have grown a small garden for years. I'm not this year, because we plan on selling and so are converting my garden space to yard, but I may have to buy some potting soil because I'm having withdrawal. </p><p> </p><p>A lot of veggies are not cost-effective. If you won't eat them for starters. But some are quite cost effective. You can get seeds at Wal-Mart for 99 cents a package and really they're fine. The best in my opinion to grow are salad greens (lettuce, spinach - you can always freeze the spinach), tomatoes (if you don't eat them all, you can freeze them and use them in soups and sauces later), yellow, orange and red bell peppers - (Green ones are cheap, the colored ones are pricey in the store even though they're about the same thing! They also freeze <u>great</u>. I cut them in half, seed them, toss them in a freezer bag, done. I used what I grow in the summer all winter.) Cucumbers are easy and usually produce quite a bit but you can't keep them well unless you make pickles, and zucchini or summer squash- it's actually pretty cheap in the stores, but it's a big producer so if you like it you can get a lot. Takes up a lot of space though. </p><p> </p><p>So yeah, think of what your family will actually eat and try to plant things that you can keep easily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 654096, member: 17309"] I should mention, I have grown a small garden for years. I'm not this year, because we plan on selling and so are converting my garden space to yard, but I may have to buy some potting soil because I'm having withdrawal. A lot of veggies are not cost-effective. If you won't eat them for starters. But some are quite cost effective. You can get seeds at Wal-Mart for 99 cents a package and really they're fine. The best in my opinion to grow are salad greens (lettuce, spinach - you can always freeze the spinach), tomatoes (if you don't eat them all, you can freeze them and use them in soups and sauces later), yellow, orange and red bell peppers - (Green ones are cheap, the colored ones are pricey in the store even though they're about the same thing! They also freeze [U]great[/U]. I cut them in half, seed them, toss them in a freezer bag, done. I used what I grow in the summer all winter.) Cucumbers are easy and usually produce quite a bit but you can't keep them well unless you make pickles, and zucchini or summer squash- it's actually pretty cheap in the stores, but it's a big producer so if you like it you can get a lot. Takes up a lot of space though. So yeah, think of what your family will actually eat and try to plant things that you can keep easily. [/QUOTE]
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