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"land" in my neighborhood -- even in these hard times --in this hard hit city 
- would go for something like $ 750,000.00 to over a million dollars an acre. 
 How many of those "almost free' bush beans could I harvest  'if' I had an 
acre?  The grocery store will sell me beans cheap in a can or a bin, whether, 
or not, I live on the fifth floor of an inner city apt.complex and have no 
land.  

The few extra dollars I paid to have a few sixpacks of already 5-10 inches 
tall plants rather than germinating underground, wouldn't buy a six pack of 
german beer, I don't imagine.    We are taling my backyard garden in the 
central city.  I like  the fact that I went out at daybreak and could see the 
plants, already.

Occasionally, the market has chicken  (legs and thighs) for 39 cents a pound 
or whole chickens for 59 cents a lb.   How many people who grow their own 
chikens can do it for that price (and no work)?  Sometimes, it is just worth 
paying the extra money for something.

 I would still pay Sage her asking price  for her fresh eggs, if she were 
near -- though the price is triple what I pay at the store.  I would pay you 
extra for your beef, if you were near.  Some things are worth paying extra.  
My plants are already asbove ground and growi8ng.  That was worth a few bucks 
to me.

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--- On Sun, 2/22/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] More spring palnting
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 8:50 AM
> >.  It actually is 'much' cheaper to buy thwem
> already processed from the 
> >grocery story, not just buying seed to plant.
> >
> 
> Where do you get that idea? For the $1.95  you can buy a
> pack of 150 bush 
> bean seeds. This will intensely plant a double 15' row,
> which, according to 
> the Henry Fields site will  produce 7 pounds per 15'
> row (14 pounds for a 
> double row) over a 2-3 week period. In my climate, beans
> keep producing 
> (lesser amounts) until frost, as long as I keep them
> picked, so I have beans 
> from May through September, probably at least another 10-15
> pounds per 15 
> foot row. Since beans are legumes, they require nothing
> more than compost, 
> which I make for free. We get timely rain all summer, so I
> usually don't 
> have to water them. That's potentially 44 pounds of
> beans for $1.95. Pole 
> beans produce even more.
> 
> http://henryfields.com/product.asp?splid=SPLID02&pn=11575&bhcd2=1235316368
> 
> Lynn WIgglesworth
> Tioga Co, PA 
> 
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