Plants for Their Simplicity

Welcome to $30 Tomatoes
One of my New Year's Resolutions was to get back to gardening as part of living a slightly greener life. Where does the title come from? Well, consider what we've spent so far:
$96 boards for beds
$15 angle irons, screws and assorted hardware
$ 6 bamboo for planting grids
$70 topsoil
$ 3 recycled plastic bin, for composting
$ 6 2 brocolli plants
$ 3 nine-pack lettuce seedlings
$ 5 bag of onion sets
$12 assorted vegetable seed packs

for a total of $216.00.
Of course, that doesn't include the enjoyment of the fresh air, the sunlight, the satisfaction of a job well done in digging up the yard for beds, the companionship of building stuff with the spouse or having a two-year old navvy helping you haul dirt - "I do a good job, Mimi?" "Yes, Bubs, you do a great job."
Hard to put a price on that.