Frugal

Yea absolutely I agree. I have lots of berries too, and most of the stuff is native. I'm just getting started so obviously it's a lot of work and time consuming right now so I guess my point is that that should be considered first lol. I have a ton of animals and pests that need to be kept at bay as well and that's a whole different battle (:

I live in a super rocky mountain area, amending the soil would be insane work here, but not impossible. It took me all day to plant 2 apple trees. HuGE boulders and rock, but luckily they like the kind of soil we have as long as I put down phosphorus in fall.

I'm still figuring it out. And obviously it would save you money, but perhaps not worth the trade off at least initially, and probably outright impossible if you are already struggling hard.