The profitability of the suburban area: myth or reality?
Traditionally, it is believed that all fruit and vegetable crops grown in summer cottages, gardeners are completely free.
However, if we summarize all the costs of maintaining personal household plots, we can come to a more correct conclusion: fruits and vegetables collected by local summer residents, albeit cheaper than store ones, still cost a pretty penny ...
Speaking of investments in beds and potato fields, we most often refer to strained hands and time spent. However, a modern garden site requires not only the application of physical effort. Here you need: manure - by cars, fertilizer - by bags, seeds - by buckets. Moreover, the contents of the house, electricity charges and travel expenses to the destination. If the calculations also include the purchase of a plot, the construction of a house and the laying of a well, then the yield will be really golden. And you can compensate for the costs if you start trading in farmed fruits at market prices.
Therefore, the majority of summer residents keep a private household rather than for material gain, but for aesthetic reasons. Saving worries pensioners more.
Surprisingly, the prices of private traders are often higher than in the store. As a result, the buyer often bypasses gardeners by making a choice in favor of cheaper products. But it’s more correct to give preference to fresh, environmentally friendly, carefully grown, garden products.
If you multiply the crop grown on the garden plot at the prices set by private owners, you can easily find out that growing crops in your own garden can save a lot of money. The benefit is obvious, if not for one serious “but” ...
We took into account the financial costs of maintaining the garden and growing crops. However, it should be noted that, going to the summer cottage, the gardener dooms himself to heavy physical labor, forgetting about rest for a couple of days. But many are able to get real pleasure from sticking in the garden, especially by tasting the fruits of their own labor.
It turns out that growing a crop in a private household is not only a saving. Gardening is also about taking care of your health. And for many, working in the garden is also a wonderful vacation.
