Eh, gardening is usually very time consuming, the times it isn’t is when it’s already super cheap produce (onion and potato. There are some instances it’s actually very useful though. Growing some herbs and spices can be pretty easy and it’s nice because rather than buying a ton of fresh herbs that go bad you merely clip what you need from the plant and it stays fresh. Scallions are another one that are easy to grow and can be kind of expensive to buy depending where you live. You can literally drop a scallion stem in some water in front of a sunny windoe and it’ll grow.
Other than those examples however the small economies of scale make it too time consuming to garden for financial reasons. It’s better to work overtime and buy produce than to garden it.
On another note though you can try community gardening too and that may be a large enough scale to be useful however.
Id slightly disagree with the economic judgement.
We know that working a particular job has a declining productivity rate as hours increase, and past a certain threshold it is detrimental to your health.
While gardening does take time, it is also a hobby, is good for the psyche and helps to offset stress from your normal job.
So the utility of gardening is often much higher than the nominal value of the price difference.
