STOP buying grocery store salad and start growing your own for cheaper #garden #budget #lettuce
3 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video (Nicole Johnsey Burke) arguing that growing your own salad is much cheaper than buying prepackaged supermarket salad over six months. The speaker compares costs for eating one salad per day: supermarket scenario (6 USD per salad box → 10 boxes/month → 60 boxes over 6 months → 360 USD total) versus home-garden scenario (seed $20, soil ~$80, raised bed ~$100, water ~$5 → $205 total stated), and the speaker reports a homegrown per-salad cost of $1.14.
Questions this video answers
6 USD per salad box
10 boxes per month
60 boxes over 6 months
360 USD
20 USD for seed; ~80 USD for soil; ~100 USD for a raised bed; ~5 USD for water










