£5 a Month Veg Plot March Update – Cutting Down on Multipurpose Compost
Apologies for a rather belated £5 a Month Veg Plot March update. I’ve not been hiding another massive overspend, honest. Well, maybe a..
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Ten Tips for Grow Your Own Beginners
As a kind of beginner-turned-improver at allotmenteering, people often ask me what to grow first, where to start, what can they do in a..
The £5 a Month Veg Plot in February – Success and Failure!
A month ago I publically declared my attempt to spend no more than a fiver a month on my beloved veg growing hobby. Since then I’ve spent..
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.
For more info,