We saw this sign in our local Woolworths over the weekend: carrots for $1.45 each. My goodness! A packet of seeds costs about $3.50. At that rate, it would take only 3 supermarket carrots for the seed packet to be ahead. There’s 500+ seeds in a typical packet of carrot seeds, and the seeds last [...]
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Carrots: $1.45 each, compared to $3.50 for a packet 500 seeds
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