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Ten Tips for Grow Your Own Beginners

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..

April 29, 2013 with 2 Comments
The Real Men Sow Top 9 Money Saving Veg of 2011

The Real Men Sow Top 9 Money Saving Veg of 2011

There were nine fruit and veg that saved a substantial more than everything else during 2011, and here they are: Tomatoes It’ll come as..

January 11, 2012 with 4 Comments
How Much Money Can Growing Your Own Save Me? October Update

How Much Money Can Growing Your Own Save Me? October Update

And so, British Winter Time arrives and my harvests are dwindling. However, I did still manage £44.38 in produce, via 34 harvests at an..

November 2, 2011 with 2 Comments

About Real Men Sow

meIn 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.

However, three years on, and she now lets me do stuff without watching over my shoulder, so I must be doing something right. [ read more ]

Saving £500 a year!

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, visit my Money Saving Experiment page by clicking here.

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