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April 17, 2014 in Garden Tips

Will Planting A Garden Save Me Money?

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Cherry tomatoes taste like candy. Don’t they? And who doesn’t love candy? [All hands up in the air- pick me, pick me, pick me].

That’s why I planted 24 cherry tomato plants last year. Overkill, huh? But didn’t I just say they taste like candy and are nutritious. The yield? The average was 3 to 4 pints per plant. Some plants easily produced 5 pints.  I love cherry tomato plants because they just keep on producing all summer right into fall.  


But where I live, even in the best of times, cherry tomatoes are $2 a pint. Just today, I paid $3.50 for one pint. (stinkin’ blog pic. ) But in season, of course they’re a bit cheaper. So a conservative estimate of what I saved goes as follows:

Math quickie: 24 plants x 3 pints x $2.00 (lowball tomato price) = $144 
$144 savings – $8 (cost of tomato plants) = $136 total savings

Math quickie: 24 plants x 3 pints x $3.50 (todays price) = $252 
$252 savings – $8 (cost of tomato plants) = $244 total savings 

And these tomatoes don’t reflect the price you’d pay for organic which is quite a bit higher. 

Unlike me, you could also plants seeds (hopefully you have seeds already going!) and will save that cost of the plants as well. 

Now you’re thinking to yourself, hmmmm, don’t think I could even use that many tomatoes. Well, pass them along to family, friends and neighbors; they will love you! And cherry tomatoes make that perfect neighborly peace offering. 

And you’d be surprised. During the summer months, we eat zucchini six weeks straight. Although Tom starts to balk after week four. Then you can just sheepishly haul your zucchini baseball bats to the front yard with a “free” sign. 

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But where I live, even in the best of times, cherry tomatoes are $2 a pint. Just today, I paid $3.50 for one pint. (stinkin’ blog pic. ) But in season, of course they’re a bit cheaper. So a conservative estimate of what I saved goes as follows:

Math quickie: 24 plants x 3 pints x $2.00 (lowball tomato price) = $144 
$144 savings – $8 (cost of tomato plants) = $136 total savings

Math quickie: 24 plants x 3 pints x $3.50 (todays price) = $252 
$252 savings – $8 (cost of tomato plants) = $244 total savings 

And these tomatoes don’t reflect the price you’d pay for organic which is quite a bit higher. 

Unlike me, you could also plants seeds (hopefully you have seeds already going!) and will save that cost of the plants as well. 

Now you’re thinking to yourself, hmmmm, don’t think I could even use that many tomatoes. Well, pass them along to family, friends and neighbors; they will love you! And cherry tomatoes make that perfect neighborly peace offering. 

And you’d be surprised. During the summer months, we eat zucchini six weeks straight. Although Tom starts to balk after week four. Then you can just sheepishly haul your zucchini baseball bats to the front yard with a “free” sign. 

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  1. Scott D. says

    January 11, 2021 at 3:07 am

    Like many things, gardening takes practice. Plants will require regular watering, maintenance and harvesting. Growing many different vegetables in a large garden can be overwhelming for new gardeners and can ultimately lead to failure. Limit yourself to just a few types of vegetables the first year. When you become more confident in your abilities and resources, you can increase the size of your vegetable garden and grow a wider variety of crops.

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