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Sheldon > wrote:

> Those are the reasons I garden, especially because for me it's fun and
> enjoyable. I don't really think about the economic aspect unless
> someone brings it up, but I know from years of experience, that just
> like any other hobby there is no monetary advantage. I also collect
> fountain pens, many of which cost hundreds, even thousands of
> dollars... I can just as easily write with a 19 cent BIC... but there
> is a certain intangible enjoyment in hobbies that can't be equated in
> dollars and cents. Once there's a profit it's no longer a hobby, then
> it's a business... I'm into gardening, not farming... if it was
> constantly on my mind to turn a profit I wouldn't enjoy it and I'd not
> do it. Most of what my garden produces I give away. Today I gave
> away two large butternut squash and two large cabbages, make that
> three cabbages, gave two to my neighbor and one to my tenant. I still
> have four more large cabbages in the garden and more squash... I
> picked some for me too but I can't fit any more in my fridge. It
> would have been immeasurably less costly to simply buy a few cabbage
> and squash for like under $20... growing my own two cabbage and two
> squash cost like $200, probably more. But even knowing this I don't
> mind.

Aren't you the same Penmart who was putting down people who would can
their own tomatoes because it is cheaper to buy them? <grin>

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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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on "A Prairie Home Companion," <http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
programs/2008/08/30/>