Seeing the markup in the grocery stores, I am thinking of growing something myself to save money. The problem is what to grow. I have a small yard with a cliff in the back, so no amber waves of grain shall by seen out my back window. Potatoes? We grew those when I was little and I do eat a lot of potatoes, but I have clay not good quality potatoe growing dirt, so I imagine that I would end up with with spuds in such a size that they could be considered 'popcorn' potatoes...I could probably market those, have Jessica Simpson sing 'one of these days these spuds are gonna...' Anyway..
Tried carrots once they ended up the size of my thumb, acceptible, but cleared out the whole garden to get two salads and a carrot cake. I want something more substantial, then it hits me. I went to BJs and looked at the spices going for something expensive so even if I only get a little bit of viable spice from my garden I am getting a good deal in worth. This goes double when you figure you don't go through them as much so one batch of a spice could last a while.
I came to bay leaves and whole basil leaves, those puppies are so light that they end up being $50 a pound...wow. I figure if I am growing leaves worth that much in my garden the FDA or DEA or someone will be staking out my patio waiting for me to harvest. Peppers? I really like red and orange peppers but really never buy them because they cost so much more than green peppers, which I rarely buy because, umm, well because they aren't free. Wonder if I could grow red peppers. Oh banana peppers, that would be good, I like them in sauces or on pizza and burgers, and I don't need a lot, one pepper covers a meal.
Banana peppers would not be saving me as much money as I would like though. You get a whole jar of pickled peppers for $2 or so with coupon 
. Red or orange peppers would be a few bucks worth, but what I really need is to grow beef. Where can I get some steak seeds? Two summers ago I got some decent 85% lean beef for 99 cents a pound on several sales. Last summer the best I found was the not so good 80% lean for $1.79. What gives with beef prices? I could grow some 93% lean to grind along the perimeter and some tenderloin in a few rows in the center.
Oh well I will think of something to grow that will be worth my time.
Home grown in the garden
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With my brown thumb I doubt I could grow a weed!
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