How much could you slash off your grocery bill by growing your own vegetables? Find out which crops are the most beneficial for your wallet as Ben counts down his top 5 crops that are the easiest to grow, most nutritious and the best value for money.
Ben has calculated the average prices of vegetables in common grocery stores in the US and the UK and has worked out their value by the cost of each crop’s estimated yield per raised bed if you were to buy these crops in a grocery store. You’ll be amazed how much you could save! Not sure how to get started? Ben offers some thrifty tips for sourcing garden goodies.
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Bro I'm a farmer why m I seeing this
I keep staring at squash in seed catalogs but I have no idea how I would use it.
I'm more afraid of my water bill than my produce bill, unfortunately.
there might be a translation error. You have placed the $ symbol where I believe you intended the ₵ symbol.
Surviving inflation is simple. Stop voting blue.
I notice you're growing tomatoes outside. Im in midlands ireland would that be possible here ot madness to even try?
Bravo for this video, I wonder today because I had to order some hard to find seeds, and had to order from 3 places.
I will collect more herb seeds, tomato, and tomatillo seeds. Maybe some peppers also. We do grow about half heirlooms.
One of my favorite perennial herbs is chives. They start early in the season and add flavor to many dishes. They have a beautiful purple summer bloom and continue on through the colder fall temps.
Tip; check with your local farmers, they often have lots of old wood that you can make your raised beds out of. Thats how we made ours last year. We're also able to pick up free compost here, as its a program from our city. So make sure to check with your city hall if there's a similar program.
This year however, we're using big bins for our veggie garden (those big ones used in construction to mix cement) they're super sturdy, last for years, and don't break during heavy storms. You can often get those for free as well!
Try to save as much seeds as you can from things you've eaten, like tomatoes, pepers ect. So you save money on buying seeds for the future 😀
So how we do it – buy seeds, harvest crops, save the seeds from said crop, replant next year.
-Ps, sorry for bad english
I live in the USA in Indiana, which is in the middle of the country by Chicago Illinois 45 minutes. Our area collects all of our tree leaves any wood. And it comes they compost it at the beginning of the spring you can go and get as much compost for free that you would like. Our local Walmart in our bakery section, sells the buckets that they got icing in for a dollar. so I’ve been picking up these buckets and I’m going to put zucchini in them potatoes and everything 5 gallon buckets for a buck free compost. And our dollar tree which is $1.25 you can get four packets of seeds. It’s really cheap to do a garden here.
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Catching a fish now and then gives a good variety to the inflation era food!
I would Get rid of kale and plant onions use them in almost every meal and taste much better then the rubbish in the supermarket
You are an inspiration thank you for your knowledge and excitement when delivering this video. Isle of Man.
No Potatos?
How long do we use the hoe to weed?
Tea breaks etc?
Mostly American crops… Interesting.
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Also if you can grow basil in your climate, it complements tomatoes well, not only cause it tastes good together, but also because the basil and tomatoes protect eachother from their respective pests
Lost me at squash, zuchunni… its free here most years, taste like mush, usually feed it to pigs.
You will never save money growing your own crops, especially if you have to provide water inputs and TINY raised beds.
Most people will see this, sink hundreds into trying to grow their own food, discover they will NEVER be cost effective, and then be that much poorer and still hungry.
Now i just need half a million $ to buy a house and garden so i can grow food and save 257$
Hehe 😉
Nice vid!
You can triple the costs of those saving in Canada. Our groceries are about three times the price of Britain's.
I love comment communities where people are sharing their ideas. It's brilliant. I would add spinach / swiss chard to the list as they are so packed with goodness and can be used in so many dishes. I'm in New Zealand and am in my garden daily bringing in produce to preserve and now I'm going to look into what I can grow Autumn / Winter. I have really got into seed sowing this year as I could see there would be vege shortages possibly happening. My 2 year old grandson loves 'helping' Nan in the garden lol.
Survive inflation, just get a huge back yard and grow things, cuz you know…people who are affected by inflation to the point of starvation have a back yard and energy to cultivate it, after 14 to 16 hours of 2 jobs a day…
first you need a garden. that's not something likely to happen to a lot of young people in their lifetime (cries in millennial)
How I’m posed to grow dat in my bathroom m8 innit