Our adventures as fruit and vegetable farmers for the season are coming to a close. For a $96 investment, our usable yield has been:
- All the chives, parsley, and rosemary we’ve wanted
- Two small yellow peppers of high quality
- One small cucumber, fleshy and bitter
- An uncertain quantity (maybe 50?) of super-sweet pear tomatoes
- Five Roma tomatoes, with hard, wood-like ends opposite the stems
- Zero green beans (a dog ate the seeds)
This works out to about $8 per pepper, $15 for the cucumber, maybe $2 for each Roma, a quarter each for the pear tomatoes, and let’s call it $20 for the herbs.
I think in the future, we should maybe leave farming to the professionals.
