Six hours a week sounds like a stretch for just writing labels, but the math checks out if you're busy.

Wait, 40 in one Saturday? That's wild for a plant that stays small. I had the same deal on my little patio setup, went with a dwarf last year and the first pick was maybe a dozen sad little marbles, but by August it was pumping out way more than I could eat. Mine never got big fruit though, just lots of small sweet ones. Honestly the trade felt fair to me since I wasn't dragging a monster plant off the door every day. Six square feet is tight too, so small and steady probably beats one giant slicer that eats all your space.

The line about the apps being too easy to ignore really hits. Back in college I tried one of those calorie counting apps for like two weeks and gave up because tapping a screen felt like a chore, but when I wrote my meals on a sticky note stuck to the fridge I actually stuck with it for a whole semester. Something about the pen and paper makes your brain slow down and pay attention, like you can't just swipe past it. My wife still teases me about the pile of sticky notes I kept in my desk drawer. Anyway the notebook thing makes sense to me, and $210 in 8 weeks is no joke.