CLEVELAND — Growing produce at home can be done through a few simple steps, which Noelle Akin has mastered and is now teaching to other garden enthusiasts who are hoping to save some cash.
What You Need To Know
- More than half of Americans households are harvesting personal gardens
- The cost of starting a garden is at about $70, and the average home garden can grow $600 worth of produce
- Buying soil could be the first step to planting a seed for a more budget-friendly future, according to gardening experts
Akin is the manager of training and education at Petitti Garden Center in Akron, where she is encouraging customers to pick out a few pots and grow food from home. Creating personal gardens has beome a popular hobby in recent years, Akin said, but now could also help people save some cash as grocery prices rise across the U.S.
“Growing your own plants at home– one of the easiest and economical ways to do that is seed starting,” she said…