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Blackout@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lgmjon64@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I grew up hating tomatoes until we started growing our own. It’s like it’s an entirely different food

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seeds and amendments. You gotta add more nutrients to the soil or else your yields will start to suffer. Although, there’s a lot of permaculture ways to add nutrients for free.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless you live somewhere with 0 soil quality or literally never do any work to fertilize it’s not that much extra cost to fertilize and keep soil doing well

    Run a compost heap and you’re practically going to supply yourself with everything needed for free if you can scale it enough (which is like, 2 2x4 beds and remembering to dump organic food remnants too)

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh for sure. You don’t need much. I just recently watched a cool video about tossing all your weeds in a couple of water barrels to make liquid fertilizer. It doesn’t take a lot.

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  • Lupus108@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All hail the compost worms!

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Blessed be our wormy overlords!

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• Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We grow the vast majority of our own veggies, eggs and chicken. Our kids hate store bought food, it’s even hard to go to restaurants. We sell a little bit from an on site farm stand to help pay for supplies mostly. Our seeds were $600 this year though. It’s a rather large and diverse garden.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I ate a garden grown cucumber for the first time. I couldn’t believe how refreshing it tastes!

  The supermarket version tastes like filler food.

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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t stand the produce from Walmart. They have to be doing something bad to it for it to taste so bland and go bad so quickly.

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