A Shady Dilemma for My Fruit
I was out in the garden for most of Sunday, pottering about and clearing the space for an Autumn fruit planting. All was going well, until..
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A Fruity Patch from Scratch Update
Over the past few weeks I’ve talked a lot about relinquishing the allotment, without mentioning progress of the back garden veg plot..
Nearly Time for a Month of Gooseberries…
They’re not quite ready yet, but we’re not far away now… Gooseberries are a funny fruit – I’m never quite sure what to do with..
In 2007, I took on a redundant allotment plot with my gardening-mad mum Jan. As all good mums do, she went along with it, but I don’t think she held out much hope.
During 2011, I kept a diary of how much money I save from growing my own fruit and vegetables.
After totalling all my outgoings, I saved approximately £500 over the year.
I made a spreadsheet to calculate these savings - it’s nothing too complicated, as I’m no Excel guru, but hopefully someone else will find it as useful (and strangely fun) as me.
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