I'm very happy to have found your channel, here trying to figure out what to start growing, new aspiring gardener. For the papayas you can try to pick a green, cut it like potatoes for a stew, is great. Thank you for all the good info.
I'm so happy to have found your channel!!! Finally a You tuber that lives close to me....someone who understands this crazy weather here. How did you get your mulberry to fruit? Ive had the same tree and it is struggling...I havent seen a single fruit
Yay! Floridians unite! I'm so happy you found it! On the mulberry tree... compost and mulch, lots of sun, and it seems to like a prune because it fruits on the new/soft stem branches. Also the first 18 months... mine gave very few berries and then we hit spring and BAM! Do you see any fruit on your mulberry now... it should have some small ones that are tiny and have the white "flowers" on them. Also how do your leaves look most of the year? Nice dark green? Bright green? Chewed up by pests? Right now it may look meh due to the cold depending on the type.
I love that you include practical calculations! I’m a data-driven Floridian wanting to start growing my own food in a small backyard too. So thankful I found your channel. -Sherry from Central Florida
Oh this was the best video you have ever done! Yes I was inspired. North Fort Myers, Florida. Have you added Moringa? You can add it to your smoothies and salads! Greatest video ever!
OMG! 😳 You are so sweet! Thank you! I have not added Moringa, my husband wants one! Thank you so much! I can't wait to hear how you garden grows this year! 😄
I love Wild Floridian! She is so honest and happy in all her videos. Very helpful knowledge. She makes the information fun to listen too! Thank you for sharing and God bless you❤️🎋🪴🌾🍃☘️🌷🌹🌻🌸🌺🌼
These are all great information. Thank you! We are in the Naussa County, FL and have been planting different vegetables and fruits over this spring (2022) and have started to noticed what is best to grow and what not to grow in our area. Our conclusion is to grow less maintenance greens and fruits; mulberry, sweet potato, papayas, okra, mints, sage, bananas, and many different tropical trees in our urban homestead.
HI. You inspired me to write down what we grew thus year. We saved $1300 this year😁. I do have a bit more land but not much time so we went for easy grow. Sweet potatoe, banana, longevity spinach, sisso spinach, herbs,. Other than bananas drangon fruit was a big producer also black sapote and paypya overload. I bought cassava this year and really like it. The true yams are really good too. My mulberry had a fungus so that was a no go.I hope you inspire others to grow more food. Blessings for the new year. Oh and I dehydrated green papaya in chunks for potato substitute and blended some to use as a meat tenderizer.
WOOOOOOOW!!!! $1300! I love it! What amazing savings! And what great crops! Bummer about the mulberry, but all the other plants were such amazing wins! 😄 Thank you for the papaya idea, I had never heard of using it as a potato substitute or a meat tenderizer. Wishing you the best in the new year! And can't wait to hear how much you grow in 2021!
Happy to have found your channel! I am a CT transplant and have been trying to learn what is easy to grow here. Starting my garden this year and excited to use your calendar. I too have limited space, but am doing some raised beds, patio pots, as well as garden beds. Thanks!
Yay! Welcome Robin! I hope you are enjoying Florida and starting your garden! And you got the calendar! I hope it helps you. Let me know if you have any questions 😄 I'm so excited for you and all of your projects! I can't wait to hear more 🌼🌸🌺 Happy Spring Gardening
look up recipes for green papaya picadillo. Its made with green papaya and meat, it's delicious. This can also be made with chayote, which grows prolific here in florida.
Last summer I had winter squash (Georgia Roaster), it did very well with pumpkins. Next year, I'm planting butternut squash because you can add it to lots of stuff. Working on planting 13 fruit trees and 3 grape vines as a sustainable investment for the future.. I look at it like this: I grow squash and corn to have food stored away and not be forced into standing in line for a box of food like you see on the TV. I'm in zone 6B and eat well in the summer months.
Amazing! I love that you are adding to your homestead. Food security is a great thing to have! But living in 6B... too cold for me 🥶 LOL Can't wait to hear more about all the food you are growing 😄
Papaya can certainly be added to smoothies with your bananas. Dried papaya is a really tasty snack, and drying it extends the length of time it can be used. Dried papaya is also expensive so it would be super impressive on your list of money saving plants.
Happy New Year! From your videos I planted my first banana tree along with several plants for my butterfly garden. I totally get it I need a bigger FL yard. I'm onto sweet potatoes. Here's to 2021 and more garden adventurers.
I'm so excited for you Kim! Bananas and Butterflies! Oh my! Your garden is coming along 😄 Happy New Year! And agree on to 2021 and more Gardening Adventures! 🥂
Great video! We're in Central Florida also and have similar experiences. For berries, we have blackberry vines that produce really well when we prune them back as we should. Definitely look into them, they do really well for us. I too am interested in what to do with papayas. Other than eating fresh and smoothies, I am not sure what to do with them and they produce a lot! The comment on dried papayas sounded great so I will need to look into how to do it. Thanks for sharing and happy gardening!
Hi Janet! I'll definitely have to check out blackberry vines. Now to find a space for them 🤪 Our papaya is growing and producing so much! 90 pounds already... 😂 We have been doing stir fry with fully ripe and curry and masala. We also used it to substitute the frozen strawberries in our smoothie. Honestly we are having to put them into everything because they are just coming so fast now that it is warming up. Happy Spring Gardening to you neighbor! 😄
So far gardening in Florida if had to depend on it to survived I would have died. I did everything wrong. So I am going to try again. I am weeding the raised beds now. They went to horrible weeds, rabbits ate my garden. Even my three banana trees. I love your channel. I want to garden so bad. I did the one year have great cherry tomatoes that were volunteer, sweet potatoes, mustard greens. The rest not so much. Onions not so good. You encouraged me to try again. We will put up a fence so the domestic rabbits that get lose from somewhere do not eat my garden. Brought a cage to give to neighbor if I catch them. They were his to begin with but he says they are not. He raises them and chickens.
Thanks for the inspiration! I think I'll have to track our harvests. This season looks like it'll be my best yet (10b, Broward county). Btw, dehydrated papaya is delicious! Either cubed, or as fruit leather. I also like to make papaya lassi (Indian drink with yogurt, traditionally made with mango). I can't wait to see how you do in 2021, now that your front yard garden is more established! Good luck!
How exciting! Best season! Broward county! I grew up in Broward! Thanks for the papaya ideas and I LOVE mango lassi... so papaya lassi... we'll have to try that. Thank you! I'm excited to see how it turns around in the next few months! Best wishes on your gardening adventure!
I am defiantly not getting the poundage I want I get a little to have fun with but I think the micro green and hydro is the way to go for alot well we will see. one caterpillar ate half my crop last night, growing lettuce saves money for me the most,
OoOo hydroponics! I love looking at the setup at Living with the Land at Epcot... that is a bummer about the caterpillar and your lettuce, but good for nature 🤷♀️
Great video. We have a mulberry tree should fruit hopefully this year. Have you tried blackberries? We have a huge vine that keeps making new ones. 👍We also have strawberries and blueberries and were in zone 10. Just get the heat loving ones and they will grow like crazy. ☺
I keep eyeing them at a place I go... but have passed and focused on other things.... but now that I know that I need ALL those berries, I'm going to be looking into it. What types of blackberries, strawberries and blueberries have you grown? Just asking for a friend 😋
Love your videos! Thank you so much. I am new to Florida and new to gardening and you’ve taught me so much. Can you share where you got your banana tree and mulberry bushes? I’m in Tampa so I don’t mind driving if you got them closer to you! Thanks!
Great video again . Thanks for sharing. Can you grow watermelon there where you live. If so watermelon weights about 15 pounds each . So if you grow and get 4 watermelons there is 60 pounds for you.
Hey just download the calender and it really nice. Are you going to grow corn? OMG good luck I tried corn and the ears grew so nice and the corn worms wiped them out. 😭 I will really be interested in seeing how you grow corn. 👍
YAY!!!! I'm glad you like it! We spent weeks designing it! Had to make it look like Florida 😊 I tried corn this fall and some critter ate them and then the Tropical Storm wiped them out 😂 So I'll try again this coming season.
How are you spreading out eating the bananas. I have a few trees and got 4-5 big bundles. But could not eat them fast enough. Before they were turning bad or busting open? I was sharing them with neighbors.
I had the same issue early on... how much banana bread can one eat?!?! That is sweet of you to share! Since we use our bananas in smoothies, we let them ripen and then put them in stasher bags to freeze. We also learned to make fries from green bananas. Here is the link to what the stashers if you want to check them out. Stasher Reusable Storage Bags amzn.to/3n5OIc5
Love your videos! I’m also in Florida and looking to add mulberry. What kind did you get and where? I can’t find them in my area. I’m on the Southwest coast in Lee County.
Thank you! Yay for adding mulberry! I have Everbearing mulberry that I got from Jene's Tropicals in Saint Pete. There is a native mulberry but I believe the native range is further north and it may not be happy. Green Dreams (Pete Kanaris) may have Mulberries for order and ship. I would check them out online. He also would have multiple varieties.
Love your videos. I'm really inspired but in my subdivision we use reclaimed water for irrigation therefore, we can't eat anything grown in the soil. What size container would you use to grow sweet potatoes?
I'm so excited that you loved my videos! Don't lose your inspiration... mine is on reclaim too. I push boundries but here is from UF/IFAS on the topic: Is reclaimed water safe for irrigating my vegetable garden? The Florida Department of Environmental Protection states that reclaimed water should NOT be directly applied to the surfaces of vegetables or other edible crops that are not peeled, cooked, or thermally processed before being consumed. This is why I started with Fruit trees since there was not direct application. Everything but leafy greens gets thermally processed (i.e. cooked) at my house. Hope that sparks the inspiration again! On sweet potatoes you can go as small as a 5 gallons or bigger. So it will depend more on your space and how much you want to grow 😄
I downloaded the seasonal gardening calendar, but not sure if, for example, the Fall calendar calendar means to plant in the Fall or harvest in the Fall. Which is it?
Hi Joan 😄 Thank you for downloading the calendar. The season is for planting. But thank you for letting me know that wasn't clear. I'll improve that on the next update. Best wishes 😊
I wish I could tell you! They are Publix organic sweet potatoes that we literally bought at the grocery store. So in one way... sorry I can't say... but on the other hand , you can go to Publix and get them too! Or a similar store that carries organic sweet potatoes. Here is the growing video which I think is the second question: th-cam.com/video/5IsrC8ZNVnI/w-d-xo.html If I'm misunderstanding the second question, let me know 😄
I love that you ask! No, I just did a cost avoidance of grocery purchase. I have evaluated holistically how much I spend on the garden versus outputs but it can become diluted when some purchases were made when it was a hobby and some are for the native plants which aren't meant to have a financial return on investment. Also I have considered differences of behavior growing food versus not growing food, i.e. water cost does not change since it is on the lawn irrigation that would have been running if I hadn't been growing food. Electric... $0, I don't use electric equipment for any of the projects. Labor cost... $priceless... LOL... quality time with the family can not be offset by someones labor cost. When it comes to the hardware, year one costs are always high but then get offset in later years...this is why I try to do videos where I explain cost of items such as the cattle panel trellis or must have items. But I love love that you ask! Someday I'm thinking of doing something more comprehensive but decided for now I would keep it simple.
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Thank you. Helpful!
Thank you so much 💓 for this calendar. It will be very handy to have around for the coming months 😊
I'm very happy to have found your channel, here trying to figure out what to start growing, new aspiring gardener. For the papayas you can try to pick a green, cut it like potatoes for a stew, is great. Thank you for all the good info.
I'm so happy to have found your channel!!! Finally a You tuber that lives close to me....someone who understands this crazy weather here. How did you get your mulberry to fruit? Ive had the same tree and it is struggling...I havent seen a single fruit
Yay! Floridians unite! I'm so happy you found it! On the mulberry tree... compost and mulch, lots of sun, and it seems to like a prune because it fruits on the new/soft stem branches. Also the first 18 months... mine gave very few berries and then we hit spring and BAM! Do you see any fruit on your mulberry now... it should have some small ones that are tiny and have the white "flowers" on them. Also how do your leaves look most of the year? Nice dark green? Bright green? Chewed up by pests? Right now it may look meh due to the cold depending on the type.
I love that you include practical calculations! I’m a data-driven Floridian wanting to start growing my own food in a small backyard too. So thankful I found your channel.
-Sherry from Central Florida
Oh this was the best video you have ever done! Yes I was inspired. North Fort Myers, Florida. Have you added Moringa? You can add it to your smoothies and salads! Greatest video ever!
OMG! 😳 You are so sweet! Thank you! I have not added Moringa, my husband wants one! Thank you so much! I can't wait to hear how you garden grows this year! 😄
I got some good papaya recipes. There's pretty good shredded green papaya salad
Yay! I definitely need recipes. We have freezing a bunch of it 😄
I love Wild Floridian! She is so honest and happy in all her videos. Very helpful knowledge. She makes the information fun to listen too! Thank you for sharing and God bless you❤️🎋🪴🌾🍃☘️🌷🌹🌻🌸🌺🌼
Ooooo, I’m in zone 9A & I’m totally looking up growing bananas & mulberries!
Green papaya salad is really good and when I make coconut curry I add green sauteed papaya as a filler
Ooooo! That sounds good! And I love a good curry! Do you have a recipe? Always looking for some good curry dish recipes 😄
@@WildFloridian Kimmy Warner the freediver spearfisher lady has a really good recipe on TH-cam
I love all your tips and tricks.
In daytona. 😊
These are all great information. Thank you! We are in the Naussa County, FL and have been planting different vegetables and fruits over this spring (2022) and have started to noticed what is best to grow and what not to grow in our area. Our conclusion is to grow less maintenance greens and fruits; mulberry, sweet potato, papayas, okra, mints, sage, bananas, and many different tropical trees in our urban homestead.
New Subscriber Thanks so much for the calendar…..I’m so excited….finally someone tells it like is…..KISS METHOD….Keep it simple stupid…..Thanks ❤️
You are so welcome! 🥰
Thank you so sharing. Your inspiration helps me to decide to turn my front lawn yard to grow food
I am so excited for you!!! 🥰
Can you make a video on how you plant the store bought organic sweet potatoes?
Sure! Check out this for help
th-cam.com/video/5IsrC8ZNVnI/w-d-xo.html
HI. You inspired me to write down what we grew thus year. We saved $1300 this year😁. I do have a bit more land but not much time so we went for easy grow. Sweet potatoe, banana, longevity spinach, sisso spinach, herbs,. Other than bananas drangon fruit was a big producer also black sapote and paypya overload. I bought cassava this year and really like it. The true yams are really good too. My mulberry had a fungus so that was a no go.I hope you inspire others to grow more food. Blessings for the new year. Oh and I dehydrated green papaya in chunks for potato substitute and blended some to use as a meat tenderizer.
WOOOOOOOW!!!! $1300! I love it! What amazing savings! And what great crops! Bummer about the mulberry, but all the other plants were such amazing wins! 😄 Thank you for the papaya idea, I had never heard of using it as a potato substitute or a meat tenderizer. Wishing you the best in the new year! And can't wait to hear how much you grow in 2021!
Happy to have found your channel! I am a CT transplant and have been trying to learn what is easy to grow here. Starting my garden this year and excited to use your calendar. I too have limited space, but am doing some raised beds, patio pots, as well as garden beds. Thanks!
Yay! Welcome Robin! I hope you are enjoying Florida and starting your garden! And you got the calendar! I hope it helps you. Let me know if you have any questions 😄 I'm so excited for you and all of your projects! I can't wait to hear more 🌼🌸🌺 Happy Spring Gardening
look up recipes for green papaya picadillo. Its made with green papaya and meat, it's delicious. This can also be made with chayote, which grows prolific here in florida.
Last summer I had winter squash (Georgia Roaster), it did very well with pumpkins. Next year, I'm planting butternut squash because you can add it to lots of stuff. Working on planting 13 fruit trees and 3 grape vines as a sustainable investment for the future.. I look at it like this: I grow squash and corn to have food stored away and not be forced into standing in line for a box of food like you see on the TV. I'm in zone 6B and eat well in the summer months.
Amazing! I love that you are adding to your homestead. Food security is a great thing to have! But living in 6B... too cold for me 🥶 LOL Can't wait to hear more about all the food you are growing 😄
Papaya can certainly be added to smoothies with your bananas. Dried papaya is a really tasty snack, and drying it extends the length of time it can be used. Dried papaya is also expensive so it would be super impressive on your list of money saving plants.
Oooooo dried papaya never tried that! These are great tips!!! Thank you and agree that would be some big $$$ saved 😄
You can also cook papaya when its green! You can put it in curry dishes..
Good to know 😄 Need a good recipe... have so many in the freezer
I'm so happy I found your page!! This is exactly the type of info I've been looking for! Thank you
Yay!!! I’m happy you found it too!
finally a woman Gardner not worried about her hair while gardening, just saying.
Happy New Year! From your videos I planted my first banana tree along with several plants for my butterfly garden. I totally get it I need a bigger FL yard. I'm onto sweet potatoes. Here's to 2021 and more garden adventurers.
I'm so excited for you Kim! Bananas and Butterflies! Oh my! Your garden is coming along 😄 Happy New Year! And agree on to 2021 and more Gardening Adventures! 🥂
Great video! We're in Central Florida also and have similar experiences. For berries, we have blackberry vines that produce really well when we prune them back as we should. Definitely look into them, they do really well for us. I too am interested in what to do with papayas. Other than eating fresh and smoothies, I am not sure what to do with them and they produce a lot! The comment on dried papayas sounded great so I will need to look into how to do it. Thanks for sharing and happy gardening!
Hi Janet! I'll definitely have to check out blackberry vines. Now to find a space for them 🤪 Our papaya is growing and producing so much! 90 pounds already... 😂 We have been doing stir fry with fully ripe and curry and masala. We also used it to substitute the frozen strawberries in our smoothie. Honestly we are having to put them into everything because they are just coming so fast now that it is warming up. Happy Spring Gardening to you neighbor! 😄
So far gardening in Florida if had to depend on it to survived I would have died. I did everything wrong. So I am going to try again. I am weeding the raised beds now. They went to horrible weeds, rabbits ate my garden. Even my three banana trees. I love your channel. I want to garden so bad. I did the one year have great cherry tomatoes that were volunteer, sweet potatoes, mustard greens. The rest not so much. Onions not so good. You encouraged me to try again. We will put up a fence so the domestic rabbits that get lose from somewhere do not eat my garden. Brought a cage to give to neighbor if I catch them. They were his to begin with but he says they are not. He raises them and chickens.
Lots of jam
So excited to see how it goes!!
Yay! Hope you enjoy 😄
Thanks for the inspiration! I think I'll have to track our harvests. This season looks like it'll be my best yet (10b, Broward county). Btw, dehydrated papaya is delicious! Either cubed, or as fruit leather. I also like to make papaya lassi (Indian drink with yogurt, traditionally made with mango).
I can't wait to see how you do in 2021, now that your front yard garden is more established! Good luck!
How exciting! Best season! Broward county! I grew up in Broward! Thanks for the papaya ideas and I LOVE mango lassi... so papaya lassi... we'll have to try that. Thank you! I'm excited to see how it turns around in the next few months! Best wishes on your gardening adventure!
I didn't know you could eat sweet potato leaves!
I know! Right! It blew my mind when I first heard it too!
I am defiantly not getting the poundage I want I get a little to have fun with but I think the micro green and hydro is the way to go for alot well we will see. one caterpillar ate half my crop last night, growing lettuce saves money for me the most,
OoOo hydroponics! I love looking at the setup at Living with the Land at Epcot... that is a bummer about the caterpillar and your lettuce, but good for nature 🤷♀️
Thank you! Fab ideas and inspiration 💡
You are so welcome! 😄
Great video. We have a mulberry tree should fruit hopefully this year. Have you tried blackberries? We have a huge vine that keeps making new ones. 👍We also have strawberries and blueberries and were in zone 10. Just get the heat loving ones and they will grow like crazy. ☺
I keep eyeing them at a place I go... but have passed and focused on other things.... but now that I know that I need ALL those berries, I'm going to be looking into it. What types of blackberries, strawberries and blueberries have you grown? Just asking for a friend 😋
Where are u located it says Seminole which Is were I am I'm just curious I'm loving your videos
I'm in St. Petersburg 😄
Happy new year greeting from us coffee farmer
Happy New Year! 🥂
Love your videos! Thank you so much. I am new to Florida and new to gardening and you’ve taught me so much. Can you share where you got your banana tree and mulberry bushes? I’m in Tampa so I don’t mind driving if you got them closer to you! Thanks!
I'm so happy you like the videos 😄 I got my bananas and mulberry from Jene's Tropicals in St. Pete
Great video again . Thanks for sharing. Can you grow watermelon there where you live. If so watermelon weights about 15 pounds each . So if you grow and get 4 watermelons there is 60 pounds for you.
Yes, we can grow watermelon! That is a great idea! And that is a LOT of pounds with a couple fruits! Love it 👏👏👏
Hey just download the calender and it really nice. Are you going to grow corn? OMG good luck I tried corn and the ears grew so nice and the corn worms wiped them out. 😭 I will really be interested in seeing how you grow corn. 👍
YAY!!!! I'm glad you like it! We spent weeks designing it! Had to make it look like Florida 😊 I tried corn this fall and some critter ate them and then the Tropical Storm wiped them out 😂 So I'll try again this coming season.
How are you spreading out eating the bananas. I have a few trees and got 4-5 big bundles. But could not eat them fast enough. Before they were turning bad or busting open? I was sharing them with neighbors.
I had the same issue early on... how much banana bread can one eat?!?! That is sweet of you to share! Since we use our bananas in smoothies, we let them ripen and then put them in stasher bags to freeze. We also learned to make fries from green bananas.
Here is the link to what the stashers if you want to check them out.
Stasher Reusable Storage Bags amzn.to/3n5OIc5
Love your videos! I’m also in Florida and looking to add mulberry. What kind did you get and where? I can’t find them in my area. I’m on the Southwest coast in Lee County.
Thank you! Yay for adding mulberry! I have Everbearing mulberry that I got from Jene's Tropicals in Saint Pete. There is a native mulberry but I believe the native range is further north and it may not be happy. Green Dreams (Pete Kanaris) may have Mulberries for order and ship. I would check them out online. He also would have multiple varieties.
I actually found a black ever-bearing and can’t wait to see it fruit!
@@WildFloridian Echo is not far from me and was able to pick up a few things from them. I follow Green Dreams too but I think hes up near you.
Love your videos. I'm really inspired but in my subdivision we use reclaimed water for irrigation therefore, we can't eat anything grown in the soil. What size container would you use to grow sweet potatoes?
I'm so excited that you loved my videos! Don't lose your inspiration... mine is on reclaim too. I push boundries but here is from UF/IFAS on the topic:
Is reclaimed water safe for irrigating my vegetable garden? The Florida Department of Environmental Protection states that reclaimed water should NOT be directly applied to the surfaces of vegetables or other edible crops that are not peeled, cooked, or thermally processed before being consumed.
This is why I started with Fruit trees since there was not direct application. Everything but leafy greens gets thermally processed (i.e. cooked) at my house. Hope that sparks the inspiration again!
On sweet potatoes you can go as small as a 5 gallons or bigger. So it will depend more on your space and how much you want to grow 😄
@@WildFloridian Thank you
I downloaded the seasonal gardening calendar, but not sure if, for example, the Fall calendar calendar means to plant in the Fall or harvest in the Fall. Which is it?
Hi Joan 😄 Thank you for downloading the calendar. The season is for planting. But thank you for letting me know that wasn't clear. I'll improve that on the next update. Best wishes 😊
how to propagate bananas?
Here is a video all about bananas including how to propagate bananas. Cheers!
th-cam.com/video/b3LXqOA-MLU/w-d-xo.html
What was the white swt potato variety? Where did you find it to start them?
I wish I could tell you! They are Publix organic sweet potatoes that we literally bought at the grocery store. So in one way... sorry I can't say... but on the other hand , you can go to Publix and get them too! Or a similar store that carries organic sweet potatoes. Here is the growing video which I think is the second question: th-cam.com/video/5IsrC8ZNVnI/w-d-xo.html
If I'm misunderstanding the second question, let me know 😄
I believe they are japanese. Grocery worker here lol…theres jewel, japanese, garnet, etc.
Where did you get your mulberrys?
Jene's Tropicals on Central Ave. St. Petersburg
What were the species name of the bananas
Small type is Dwarf Cavendish
Big type is Grand Na’an
Do you sell or trade your food?
No, we use everything we grow. 😄 I give away plants to my neighbors when I have extras
So the math.. are you taking into account all of the hardware, soil, mulch, seeds/plants, water, electric, labor, etc...
I love that you ask! No, I just did a cost avoidance of grocery purchase. I have evaluated holistically how much I spend on the garden versus outputs but it can become diluted when some purchases were made when it was a hobby and some are for the native plants which aren't meant to have a financial return on investment. Also I have considered differences of behavior growing food versus not growing food, i.e. water cost does not change since it is on the lawn irrigation that would have been running if I hadn't been growing food. Electric... $0, I don't use electric equipment for any of the projects. Labor cost... $priceless... LOL... quality time with the family can not be offset by someones labor cost. When it comes to the hardware, year one costs are always high but then get offset in later years...this is why I try to do videos where I explain cost of items such as the cattle panel trellis or must have items. But I love love that you ask! Someday I'm thinking of doing something more comprehensive but decided for now I would keep it simple.