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Substinence farming fucking sucks, you’re going to be on the field all day long in the summer in order to have enough food to get you through the winter. Hobbyist gardening gives you best of both worlds - you have a nice patch of land to play in, and at the end you get a handful of produce to show off to friends and family.
Subsistence farming sucks for grains and similiar things that can be efficiently machinized.
For many fruits and vegetables farming still relies on a lot of manual labor, often done by immigrants and vulnerable people under terrible working conditions.
My parents grow most of their fruits and veggies for half a year on about 40 m2 which is a tenth of an acre.
So with very little land it is possible to replace a lot of your grocery bag with self grown produce.
I reckon most peppers in the store don’t have viable seeds.
They do, but chances are they’re f1 hybrids, meaning they don’t grow true to seed. You’ll get a random mutant, but it’ll be an edible pepper .
Is this person angry that green peppers cost money because… Theres a bunch of seeds???
Not angry, just saying more people should grow their own food instead of relying on supermarket food for eveything
Eh, gardening is usually very time consuming, the times it isn’t is when it’s already super cheap produce (onion and potato. There are some instances it’s actually very useful though. Growing some herbs and spices can be pretty easy and it’s nice because rather than buying a ton of fresh herbs that go bad you merely clip what you need from the plant and it stays fresh. Scallions are another one that are easy to grow and can be kind of expensive to buy depending where you live. You can literally drop a scallion stem in some water in front of a sunny windoe and it’ll grow.
Other than those examples however the small economies of scale make it too time consuming to garden for financial reasons. It’s better to work overtime and buy produce than to garden it.
On another note though you can try community gardening too and that may be a large enough scale to be useful however.
Id slightly disagree with the economic judgement.
We know that working a particular job has a declining productivity rate as hours increase, and past a certain threshold it is detrimental to your health.
While gardening does take time, it is also a hobby, is good for the psyche and helps to offset stress from your normal job.
So the utility of gardening is often much higher than the nominal value of the price difference.
This assumes that gardening is free. Which it is not. Still better to grow your own though.
It is also labour intensive and not that easy. This year, I must have put dozens of hours of labour to get 8 tomatoes, 5 cucumbers and some chives. We got too much rain.
Let me encourage you to attempt deep water hydroponic growing of those tomatoes. Easiest fucking thing I’ve ever done, I only have to check them once a week to refill the water other than that I don’t do shit and I get nice large cherry tomato harvests.
You basically just need a large barrel or bucket, an air pump, and a little air Stone from like a fish tank or something. Plant goes into the water air bubbler goes down so that the roots don’t drown mix in some hydroponic nutrients and you’re done sit back and ignore it
