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Whether you’re growing your own food for the improved taste, range of varieties or health benefits, choosing crops that are high value can also make a real saving on your food bills.
In this video we explain a simple set of criteria you can use to determine which crops are the most valuable for your household and suggest a range of plants which save money and offer great value for the time and space they need to grow.
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Whether you're growing your own food for the improved taste, range of varieties or health benefits, choosing crops that are high value can also make a real saving on your food bills.
In this video we explain a simple set of criteria you can use to determine which crops are the most valuable for your household and suggest a range of plants which save money and offer great value for the time and space they need to grow.
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Another consideration for me in terms of value are vegetables that might be cheap when grown conventionally but are expensive when grown organically. Among these are celery, cucumbers, and bell peppers.
Tomatoes are the Bomb n u got an accsent Keep teaching!! ^_^
rasberries n strawberries best fresh
Thank you so much for sharing. Awesome video and real value. Greater success to you.
Tomatos (7 kinds). Oranges (3 kinds), Limes, lemon, buddha hand, Apple (4 Kinds), 4 kinds of squash, pumpkin, Blueberries, Grapes, Chard, Avocado, Peaches (3 Kinds), Plums, Figs, Bananas!, jujube, mint, sage, garlic, edible flowers, damon, purple potato, and macadamia nuts. We have tried a few things that have not done well like dragon fruit (flowers but no fruit) and pineapple.
I live in Central Florida, so Fall/Winter gardens are the most prolific. I grow lots of cabbage (I make saurkraut), pickling cucumbers, summer squash, carrots, kale, collards, broccoli, potatoes, beets and lettuce in the Fall and can and pickle as much as possible. In December, I start tomato and pepper plants indoors and set them out in late February to early March for the Spring. I then direct seed bush beans until it gets too hot. I try to can as many tomatoes and beans as possible!
Kale is a high value crop also and I love it. I plant 3 different kinds and they last well into the fall. I blanch and freeze what's left before the snow and I have kale in the freezer all winter!
One of the greatest values for me is to grow stuff that I never, or seldom, see in the shops in South Africa. I've had great success with jerusalem artichokes, cardoons and salsify, and have struggled with seakale, and am making progress with samphire and chinese artichokes. It is nice to be able to offer foods to friends that they do not know.
Thanks a lot for your effort to make and post these great useful information.
my two favorites are tomatoes; for their vastly superior flavour to store bought, and zucchini; simply because they're so quick to grow. However they do take up a LOT of space!
We grow courgettes – they need space but you get a lot from one or two plants. We also grow shallots and can often produce enough to last a year, though drying can be tricky. And never forget runner beans; they are expensive to buy and only edible if eatern fresh.
The highest value crop in my garden is definitely blueberries. Low maintenance, easy to freeze and expensive in the grocery store. Green onions are also great as we just cut off the tops and they keep coming back. And no waste! Also a fan of peppers.
Asparagus is a high value in Southwest Oregon
I would add mushrooms to the list. There are lots of varieties that can be grown at home. I'm trying my hand at Wine cap mushrooms at the moment.
Asparagus, figs and kumquats.
I'd love to see a video on how you make those strawberry planters 🙂
You should grow a bud plant
I am happy to see and learned on what you shared which is very encourage to me me as small gardener. What I learned is the utilization of small space to grow a lot of vegetable varieties. As an extension worker, I like share this to our farmers to make sure that they are not only plant for food but also have more to sel to earn income.
Let's not forget the lack of pesticides. Some of the veggies in stores are drenched in them.
Chillies for me. Always get enough for whole year
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Courchettes, cherry tomatoes, Swiss chard, carrots, kale, artichokes, carrots,radishes, spring onions, lettuce, cucumbers…. We enjoy them all, We try growing as much variety as we can just in case any don't have a good year. Blackberrys, blueberries, strawberries, gooseberries, pear and apple are the main fruit. Not yet started on nut trees. My favourite is the courchettes, green or yellow ones and lots of them,a pint of courchettes a day or more I will munch on. My daughter loves the rhubarbs and my son loves the advacado but I am not able to grow that one so his next favourite is the radishes. Rosemary and mint is our family favourite herbs. Everything in our back garden is edible for us, while the front garden is for bees , butterflies , birds, etc
true and everything, still potato is my favourite crop so i grow it hah
My parsley has grown all winter even in the snow it's huge.
Spot On! You can save a lot of money by growing your own fruits and vegetables right in your backyard or in flower pots. The price of a pack of seeds is almost equivalent to what you would pay for a single vegetable or fruit at the store, saving you hundreds of dollars each season!
Well Done! Growing up in the rural part of North Carolina, having and being surrounded by gardens was a part of life. My family did not have to worry about recalls on food because when you grow your own food you know what you are putting in your body. You can save a lot of money by growing your own fruits and vegetables right in your backyard or in flower pots. The price of a pack of seeds is almost equivalent to what you would pay for a single vegetable or fruit at the store, saving you hundreds of dollars each season!
teach your children . they are gonna need to know gardening so they are no burden when they have to garden instead of buy? every family should know how to grow food and be part of a home schooling program
Many thanks, I have been researching "what can i grow now?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of – Ponorcas Unconventional Primacy – (should be on google have a look )?
It is a great exclusive product for discovering how to grow an unlimited food supply and ditch large food companies minus the normal expense. Ive heard some incredible things about it and my colleague got cool results with it.