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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Now i just need half a million $ to buy a house and garden so i can grow food and save 257$
Hehe 😉
Nice vid!
Kale is just awful. Who took a bite of it and thought "yes, this is edible" 💀
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
Was expecting opium poppies, cannabis, datura, coca and kava.
does he attract rats that come and nibble on all that food in the garden?
Wish I COULD grow squash, but the bugs eat them up. no matter how much pesticides, or various other methods can kill those darn squash bugs.
awesome! now i just need to buy land to grow my own plants. whelp…
cool now all I have to do it get my nightmare children to eat veggies
After years of waiting in line my family finally got a community lot in our area. We already had experience from setting up a bunch of stuff on our balcony so I suppose we were better prepared than most, but it's still a lot of effort to get a space that large prepared. Peppers and herbs were already on the list, and we do tomatoes on our balcony, but I'd never even considered squash (or any of the other options under that video section). I will definitely think about it, and perhaps go through some more videos to get a bit more knowledgeable 😜. Thank you for sharing
The selection needs to be specific to the planting zone. I have year round gardening with four planting seasons, not just one or two. Gardeners in colder climates can use cold frames and eke out an extra growing season if they stick with hardy plants.
The source of such inflation (specially in Europe)? Sanctions on Russia. Know who doesn't need these tips? Russians. Way to shoot ourselves in the foot, western society.
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I really struggle to believe that a garden is more cost effective than crops grown in mass and harvested by modern machinery, the economics of scale kind of thing. How to make everything tried making a sandwich, it took him 6 months, tasted terrible, and cost him $1500.
There's nothing that beats the satisfaction of growing things yourself though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE
Yeah, as soon as I can afford a garden, I will come back to this video.
Best finds for dumpster by my apartment include a solid old metal lock box meant for tools that I keep my fishing tackle in, and a perfect 1970s style white and gold bookshelf that is meant to be on top of a desk. The latter I put on the patio for garden plants, and is about 4’ X 4’ solid wood.
Things not in dumpster I found included on the way to work I was walking and found a perfectly good plastic watering can, about a gallon sized. Then walking near the mall I found a nice solid metal container meant for putting cash in, which no nearby business said was theirs, and had a Goodwill sticker on.
Some very nice things lost now have a great home.
if u have enough money to have a garden it will work. But No Money -> no garden -> no money saver …. useless
😂😂😂
Grow this crops and get literally zero nutrients.
You can keep any plant in a movable container well watered by giving the contain a home inside good size dish that will hold water. Traditionally that's the purpose of saucers sold with plant pots.
Having to pay top money for butter is not hitting as hard when you can grow stuff nearly free
This guy sounds exactly like the gray haired man from The Gadget Show.
Your videos are always so fun! Thank you.
I grow weed as my herb
i once found a large fully intact model of Tutankhamun's head in a skip, best find so far
I use a trowel far more than any of the tools you mention…
I tried to do the maths for my garden and it turns out that the most profitable are fruit trees, lettuce, garlic and berries. From one small quince tree I got about 15kg of fruit, which is worth about 50 USD where I live. And quince jam is absolutely delicious. My older apple tree can yield up to 60kg, which is way more than I can use. But I still grow many other plants, simply for the taste and health benefits.
This is painful watching a UK pandering to the American market.
I found a girlfriend in a skip. She's a bit knackered now but still going.
Which plants would you recommend indoors? I mean, ìf we didn't have decorative plants but instead chose edible ones indoors, which would be the smartest choices?
Hmm so first I need to buy a house with garden space for crops. That's even more expensive than buying tomatoes 😀
Ah yes, pay $500 more in rent to have a garden so i can save $250 growing crops
Plated three summer squash plants last year. Spoiler alert its WAY to much.
Thank YOU for your company and knowledge, Ben.
In the US, we can use SNAP benefits to purchase vegetable seeds and plants. Despite all recommendations for ideal conditions, a tomato plant really just needs 50F degrees and some water. Pretty much any dirt will work, they will grow(slowly) in shade and you can fertilize them by adding a little milk to their water or burying food waste next to them. Keep the weeds away and check for bugs and slugs often.
One raised bed solution I have found on the cheap is fence pickets…at about 2.00 per picket you can build quality raised beds very inexpensively. I dont like pallets 1 for the labor required to deconstruct them 2. Because often they are treated with harmful chemicals that will leech into your soil. As most gardeners will say…always get your materials from trusted sources so you know what you're using and where it came from..
My fave crops are baby tomatoes 🍅. I dry them in slices to snack on. Use them for tomato and chilly chutney for Xmas. This yr am going to half dry them and do them in jars as Sun dried in olive 🫒 oil. Then of course the salads and finally with sugar and balsamic as a little twist cooked to go with English breakfast