Bulking Up My Salads With Perpetual Spinach
Have you ever thought of bulking up your salad with other leaves, such as perpetual spinach? Well, I hadn’t, until recently when I found..
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Seven Attractive Veg to Rival the Ornamentals
Veg beds are traditionally rather functional things. Straight rows, full of vegetables grown for the purpose of eating. However, with a..
Hooray for the Mr Dependables
It’s a funny old year, but the poor growing conditions and moving house have both given me an opportunity to review my focus. Everyone I..
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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