I’m broke and groceries are getting more expensive.
Have any anons been able to lower grocery bills with a home garden or food forest?
I’m thinking of starting one
Im broke and groceries are getting more expensive.
I’m broke and groceries are getting more expensive.
Have any anons been able to lower grocery bills with a home garden or food forest?
I’m thinking of starting one
Lawn looks shit. Where's the grass?
grass is murder anon.
seed productive plants, native plants, or xeriscape.
Boomer mindset. Useful gardens are far more based than useless grass. Be self sufficient.
Goddamn fricking boomers call grass a weed when it's in their flower beds and complain when there isn't grass every other fricking place.
It’s a photo they took from the internet dumbfrick
Boomers are literal morons
Bullshit
Cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, onions, garlic, etc are extremely easy to grow and go well cooked with meat
I swear you guys are either dead boomers or zoomers who can’t cook
>Cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, onions, garlic
none of these provide actual real nutrition. that's the point. yeah its nice as a luxury addition to meat. but all these things you listed have no nutritional value. garlic could potentially be used as medicine (parasites die from the chemical compounds in garlic).
Yeah you can’t grow meat
You figured out the downside to plants fricking idiot
I bet your mom is so disappointed in you are
Did you impress your 4h teacher when you figured out beef doesn’t grow trees?
No one here ever suggested a vegan diet. Only growing plants to lower a grocery bill.
God you guys are stupid
>Cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, onions, garlic
>none of these provide actual real nutrition
show IQ
have you heard of vitamins
>spends 48 hours in the same thread >shitting on growing your own veggies
you glow too much shekelstein
>this guy reporting in every few hours for days
take a break mr nsa
yes. I made it this cycle and don't need to wage anymore. seethe and cope. I am going travelling the next 8 months.
same gay, look how IQfy didn’t even change his colors but he even admits it in his first post on the 2nd account
cabbage is toxic and you cannot digest it
everything else you posted about are seasonings
OP wants to save money, fruits are the way to go
unless you have fruit trees, a garden is worthless
humans can't digest vegetables
this. you need fruit trees, berries and most importantly, chickens and other animals. if you can't have a few animals + fruit and berries, it's over. veg is indeed worthless. except for maybe potatoes. which can be useful in times of no meat / fruit as they are easily storable. you can of course grow some herbs and such but they are to add flavors in good times they are not nutrition.
Post body
You first
Actually don't, I don't want to see; vegans disgust me.
>No u response and thinks eating vegetables means you're vegan
Grow up homosexual
>So easily incensed by anons on the internet
>Grow up
No u
I accept your concession low t anon
And I yours, no T anon.
the carnivore tard outside his natural habit of IQfy
>IQfy
IQfy will recommend you eating vegetables majority of the time
>the carnivore
I just recommended OP to eat fruits
you seem upset, maybe malnourished?
This
Or even more exact this
Tho im in favor of hazelnut aswell, may not be perfect but it gives a lot of calories and you can bake really good stuff out of it.
And if you have chickens anyway you can have some grass aswell
And technically tomatoes and cucumbers are fine
Economy or scale. It's cheaper to buy potatoes than to grow them. And as a newbie you won't be able to grow anything more difficult.
growing berries and fruit bush and trees is easy. just plant them and do nothing each year. vegatables is a pain in the ass, except for potatoes. also tomatos are relatively easy to grow.
t.gardenHaver.
just don't get potatoes then? get something that's a bit more rare but higher value (especially if you have a small surface).
Like anon said: berries but you can also get some spices like coriander, basil and stuff (whatever is local to your area)
fruit trees are good too, though they do require taking care of.
Taking care of a garden takes time.
>just don't get potatoes then?
potatoes are the best carbs alongside rice
if you have space to grow them you absolutely should
Almost nothing in that pic would work in the zone that I live in. I’m a full time wagie and I tried to maintain a garden but, without having the time to dedicate to it, it was extremely difficult. Granted, all the things that grew tasted amazing but I just couldn’t keep up with it. Dealing with bad weather (droughts, rain storms, cold), pests, fertilizing, etc. There’s also the issue of not being able to grow enough of it to survive on. 3 months to grow corn, a few days to eat it all.
I’d like to be as self sufficient as I can but it’s hard doing it as a hobby/part timer.
bruh you can easily grow enough potatoes on a small space to cover for half a year of eating. lust get chickens and potatoes.
My family used to do this, and I wanted to start back up again recently but I've missed the start of the growing season. It lowers your grocery bills and if you have excess produce you can sell it at the farmer's market.
I hunt
Yeah we've got a big garden in the front and back yard. Never pay for things like green onion, oregano, rosemary, thyme, sage, ginger, tomatoes, pees, dill, cilantro etc. considering how much these spices and things are at the grocery store we've probably saved hundreds in the past year alone.
Green onion especially is a fricking scam. Every night we pick three stems from the plants and haven't run out. Even through winter. Never pay for green onions.
since i seem to be the only one on IQfy who grows things and am looking to get a homestead. here's my experiences. I am getting into "lazy farming" that is. I mostly plant things that take no effort.
this includes all kind of trees and berry bushes. its just a plant once and then just a small trim every few years. very easy. and bigger yields every year, for 50 years. then i also plant a few things that are yearly things but are so easy and the yield is large. also if you leave a few of the fruit rotting on your land somewhere, next year you have new ones.
the ones worthwhile :
- potatoes
- pumpkin
- zuchini
- watermelon
- any melons variatons or pumpkins
I grow some tomatoes too, they are actually also easy but they do require some maintenance.
then i grow herbs a lot of them like
- sage
- mints
- lemonbalm
i also grow poppies (kek) and cactii (san pedro)
the main thing though is if you really want to get good food you are gonna have to farm some animals. chickens are extremely easy and provide great protein. then duck eggs are pretty nice in my opinion, and so is the duck. also very easy. rabbits are easy too but not really my thing. I dont have a big enough place right now for anythign but chickens. but when i get a better place I will get a few goat and sheep.
if you are looking for things that are lazy I recommend rhubarb and asparagus as well, I have two patches of both in my backyard that have been there for decades with no maintenance.
You did not read our responses how vegetables are bad did you?
You should grow barries, fruit (maybe nut) trees, they are almost zero efford.
If you want efford buy some chickens
>herbs
Extremely toxic
https://rumble.com/v1n4egq-plants-dont-have-antioxidants-those-are-toxins.html
>If you want efford buy some chickens
chickens are pretty much effortless if you aren't a complete moron.
>grow barries
>eggplants are toxic
Fricking moron
eggplants are fruits
You can also hit up a food pantry, anon. They're free and they don't means test.
>I’m thinking of starting one
I started one with my VINU when I needed to save some money, snails and worms are the worst garbage you can find in the garden, they eat most things, buy repellent for those little shits
>, snails and worms
just let the ducks / chickens in the garden for a bit every week and you have no snails. also worms are good you moron. they don't eat live plants they eat dead rotting things, like leaves
>snails
A can of beer in pie tin or small saucer buried in the ground
Snails can’t resist it
This past winter I started growing basic plants in my student kitchen. it turns on by itself during the day. It will probably never turn profit though. It makes me feel slightly moronic but at least it was enjoyable, and it enhances my breakfasts.
Basil, oregano, thyme, sallads and parsley
looks gigabased sir. add mint so you can drink fresh mint tea.
Godspeed plantbros
Not really.
Although i will say the one plant i noticed in my garden that required the most minimal care with the most amount of actual food was kale.
>planted about 5 plants in a small 10x 10 garden. Paid about $17 for the plants, $5 for a cover so animals don't kill when they are starting, about $40 bucks worth of soil that has lasted me for 3 summers, about $10 each summer to refresh the soil, $15 for liquid nutrient that have lasted me for a decade, $5 on dollarama hand shovel, gloves, and tomato holders so they don't flop onto the soil.
>have a good amount of decently healthy greens each day, i usually just make homemade ceaser dressing with some chicken. Aboit $20 weekly for chicken, $15 bucks for a month worth of ingredients to make ceaser dressing.
>grows early in the season and produces into fall.
>i water them maybe twice a week or if i notice they look parched. Most of the time they are hardy fricks who don't cwre after the first month.
>if you provide cover for them in the winter they have a better chance of surviving for the following year.
Ive also found potatoes to be good. But it can take a little practice to avoid rot and get any actual yields.
Raspberries are also a good option as they produce all summer and require mimimum care once they are Plant them anywhere in your garden take care of them for the first month and they take care of themselves after that. They spread like a mother fricker tho, so make sure you pick them often or you will deal with wasps and ants.
Herbs are ez af if you have a windowsill for them to sit on.
If you have the land and your allowed( and your willing to do 1 hoir of work every day) you can also get chickens and feed them your organic trash. Just a couple should be enough for maybe half a dozen a week
Growing stuff is only worth it depending on how much time and effort you put in.
>kale.
kale is the most toxic gigatrash you can consume. do a research. when fed to goats as replacement food they started to miscarry their babies. natural aborted cause kale is so toxic. dont eat that trash. if you wanna eat plant food stick to fruit
Prove it homosexual.
Show me the fricking study.
Because all i can find is goitrin causing issues if you eat a over a frick ton of kale(over one kg) a day and if you have iodine issues to start with.
If your that concerned just fricking steam cook it to reduce nutirent loss and deactivate the enzyme.
As long as you peel off the green parts. Little bit won't kill ya but remember it is part of the nightshade family.
Also mushrooms are carcinogenic raw. Always good your shrooms lads.
Always cook* your shrooms
>mushrooms are carcinogenic raw
you forgot everyone can search on the internet for the truth and make you look foolish?
How stupid are you?
Yes you can lower your grocery bill but you can’t be a fat ass like this lard
Any extreme diet will result in miscarriages dumbass
You’re the same idiot who keeps posting that eggplant and garlic are toxic
I bet you fricks love burgers tho
garilic is literally toxic. that's why your senses tell you not to eat it. go ahead eat a raw garlic clove. chew it well. what do your senses tell you?
fricking moron.