If you are doing a tomato plant or two no it isn't. If you have to set about preparing a lot or plot of land, and figuring out how to grow crops no its not at first - after the first year the costs drop dramatically. If you have a plot of land semi prepared or already well suited to growing veg then yes it can be far less expensive. I raise most of our veg here - Just got through with the beg tomato harvest - I froze, dried and canned tomatoes for the past 50 years - I exaggerate, it was only 2 weeks - but blanching and peeling tomato after tomato and putting up can after can for two weeks FEELS like 50 years. The initial outlay for things like a pressure cooker, canning jars, spade, hoe, rake and of course seed and the dozen or so books you get on gardening and canning may seem expensive, but over the course of the first decade the money you do not spend on caned beans, peas, tomato, zuccini, etc that you raised will add up. Even if all you raise is food for the growing season (no putting up for winter) you will have a smaller outlay of initial funds and will see a marked difference between growing season and non-growing season at the grocers. Wheat, and other grains is not easy to raise, Corn requires a lot of space. Beans, carrots, lettuce, peas, squash, potato,onion and others are relatively easy to raise and if you stick to their times and learn their pests and diseases the loss of crops is greatly reduced. Organic methods usually tend to rely on a lot of mulch - this mean less time pulling weeds. Frankly my garden requires a couple three weekends of serious digging in spring and fall only - with the occasional walk through to inspect for pests and pull the tenacious weed. Time is money - so how that time costs you economically may be higher than it is for me. If you have the space, a few weekends to kill, and the patience to learn in the long run veg gardening is cheaper than store bought veg.

Cheaper ... healthier ... more fun and a better product.

Yes, if you do things that are cost effective. Potatoes and onions usually don't return much but they do taste better. Greens and things like beans, squash, pepper plants, tomatoes, all can give you plenty of food for the cost, but it does depend on how you start out. If you buy big plants from the nursery, no, you might not make out cheaper unless you are very careful. But if you start your plants yourself and save your seeds, compost your waste and add that back to your garden to make it more fertile, yes, it's cheaper. And if you count on the increase of health in your family, it's definitely cheaper in the long run:-)

In my garden (a community patch, mine was 30x20. Probably only the beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, parsnips probably paid for themselves. The rest probably broke even but tasted so much better. A funny book is the $64 Tomato by William Alexander..

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yes it is cheaper to grow your own veg . if you grow enough .you can give it to your friends as presents .and they taste much better when you have grown them your self .as they have not long come out of the ground and no pesticides have been used

Yes you also get a better tasting vegetable if it grows it is also more fun!!!!:)