Your plan
What can you grow — and what's it worth?
Set your space, light and how you like to grow. We match it against dozens of crops and rank them by what saves you the most, so you start with the ones that pay off first.
Savings are estimates based on typical US grocery prices for a season of cut-and-come-again harvests — a starting guide, not a guarantee. The full app tunes crops and exact planting dates to your ZIP/postcode and climate zone, and sends watering & harvest reminders.
How it works
From any sunny spot to a harvest in four steps.
Check your light
Count the hours of direct sun your spot gets. 4–5 hours is enough for greens and herbs.
Reuse free containers
Foam produce boxes and cardboard tubes make free pots — setup cost near zero.
Pick high-savings crops
Start with herbs, leafy greens and scraps you can regrow — most savings, hardest to fail.
Harvest & repeat
Pick outer leaves as you need them and plants keep producing for months.
Questions people ask
Growing groceries in a small space, answered.
What vegetables are cheapest to grow at home instead of buying?
Herbs (basil, cilantro, parsley, chives), leafy salad greens (lettuce, spinach, arugula, kale) and microgreens save the most, because they're expensive to buy, quick to grow, and can be harvested again and again from one planting. A single basil plant can replace $60–$70 of store-bought herbs a year.
Can you grow vegetables without a yard or garden?
Yes. Most greens and herbs need only 4–5 hours of light a day and thrive in containers on a windowsill, balcony or small patio. Reuse free foam produce boxes and cardboard tubes for seedlings and your starting cost can be near zero.
What can you grow on a windowsill with limited sunlight?
With 4–5 hours of light: leaf lettuce, spinach, arugula, kale, most herbs, green onions and microgreens. Fruiting crops like tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers want 6–8 hours, so they're better on a sunny balcony or in a yard.
What vegetables can you regrow from kitchen scraps?
Green onions, romaine lettuce, celery, garlic greens, leeks, bok choy, fennel and ginger all regrow from scraps in water or soil. Green onions are fastest, sprouting new shoots within about three days.
How much money can you save growing your own vegetables?
Home growers commonly save a few hundred dollars a year, and about 54% of people who grow food at home do it specifically to lower grocery bills. Savings concentrate in herbs and salad greens — costly to buy, and harvestable over and over.
How fast can you harvest homegrown vegetables and herbs?
Microgreens are ready in 1–2 weeks, cilantro and leaf lettuce in about 3 weeks, and basil in 3–4 weeks. These fast, repeat-harvest crops give beginners the quickest payback.
Are homegrown vegetables more nutritious and better-tasting than store-bought?
Usually, yes. Many vegetables start losing vitamins like vitamin C within hours to days of being picked, and supermarket produce is often harvested before it's ripe so it survives shipping and storage. What you grow yourself can be picked fully ripe and eaten within minutes — so it keeps more nutrients and far more flavor. It's also the simplest way to control what does and doesn't go on your food.
How can I eat fresher, healthier vegetables at home?
The freshest, most nutritious vegetables are the ones you pick right before eating. Even a windowsill of salad greens and herbs — or a balcony of tomatoes and peppers — gives you produce harvested minutes before your plate: fresher, tastier and often more nutrient-rich than anything picked weeks early and shipped to a store. It also makes it easy to simply eat more vegetables, because they're always on hand.
Why we're building this
Big food and big retail decided what you eat and what you pay for it. Growing your own is how you take that back — your food, your rules, your money in your pocket. A few dollars and a bit of light is all it takes to stop depending on a system that keeps overcharging you.
Get the full plan
Your plan, your calendar, your reminders — done for you.
With My Own Hands turns your space into a season of harvests: what to plant, when, and what to do each week — timed to where you live. Launching soon for iOS & Android. Join the waitlist and get your plan first.
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