I did a little research at the grocery market this week to help determine potential savings from growing our own vegetables. Currently we spend about $30 a week for vegetables. This includes carrots, parsely, lettuce and celery for quick snacks and dinner salads, two or three vegetables for dinners such as broccoli, kale, cauliflower, cabbage or asparagus; and potatoes, onions, garlic and ginger (which are purchased less frequently in bulk). All of these items, except celery and ginger, can be grown in our home garden.
I will be keeping a tally of vegetables that we harvest this year. By the end of the season we should have a good idea of how many garden frames we would need to grow all of our own vegetables for some portion of the year.
I will also be keeping a tally of tools and materials that are purchased for the garden so that in the end we can figure our return on investment (ROI). In an upcoming post, I will provide a detailed explanation of how to construct a garden frame and the associated costs in terms of time and materials.
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