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The 10 Vegetables That Save You the Most Money (and 5 That Never Will)

Sixty years of Missouri gardening boiled down to one chart: what a square foot of dirt is really worth, crop by crop. Print it and plan next season around it.

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The Grocery Value Chart

Herbs top the list

One basil plant by the door replaces a $2.99 clamshell every week from June to frost.

Salad greens are next

A $3.50 packet of lettuce seed grows more than thirty bags of salad if you cut and let it come again.

Field corn is last

About twenty cents a square foot. Ruth will tell you plainly: buy it.