Vegetable gardening may not be financially profitable during your first season

I was thinking back to my first vegetable gardening experience in suburbia a few years ago. After many trips to the local home and garden store I accumulated the following:

Soil amendments (compost/peat moss/perlite) $ 33.00
Garden tools (rake/fork) $ 16.00
Organic fertilizer $ 3.00
Seeds and seed starter kit $ 24.00
Kid garden tools (shovel/watering can) $ 5.00
Miscellaneous $ 10.00

Total $ 91.00

In the end of the season we probably grew about $5 worth of tomatoes and fresh flowers but doesn’t even compare to the quality time spent with my daughter watering and as she would say “picking food” which made that season especially profitable.

IKE