Comment following sustainable gardening article: Home By james999 | 03/28/11
gardening is too expensive and too time consuming for most people. By the time one pays for all that city water, one could buy a lot more food at the store. And that's very marginal considering that one gives all their time to raising the plants. Giving time is the operative word, too. Without a lot of time to kill, gardening at home is a joke. Hours spent in a garden bring far less than minimum wage. Pennies on the hour is more like it. Having a garden is more about killing weeds than raising food to eat. Having a house full of kids to do the weeding is important, otherwise, a home garden is a waste of time. If one buys all those supplies mentioned, home gardening is also a waste of money. One thing that is not a waste though is finding out first hand the ridiculous notion of raising bug-free plants without the judicious use of chemical tools. There is nothing sustainable about bugs eating all the corn. Brussels sprouts raised without chemical tools is so buggy as to be disgusting. What kind of dangerous chemicals are in the nasty bugs that inhabit organic Brussels sprouts? If you are serious about saving water, buy your groceries at the store. The vegetables are grown in the most efficient manner possible when mass produced.