Ways of saving money by growing food
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Grow your own
Grow your own food |
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| An allotment can cost about £25 but there are often huge waiting lists. Get your name down though and ask your local councillors if there is any more land available. |
| You can grow lots of things in your own garden, depending on how much you have and how much of it you want to turn over to food production. Some things can be sown in flower beds, but some things like potatoes need their own space. |
| Fruit trees are a great investment. Plant one this year and you will be picking fruit off it every year for years to come. They need relatively little care and attention and provide delicious fruit for next to no work and little financial outlay. |
| Raspberries and rhubarb are fairly easy and grow forever - raspberries producing new stalks (canes) each year. |
| Raddishes are so easy peasy and quick. A single packet of seeds can produce you raddishes in about 6 weeks. |
| Lettuce - cut and come again types are better imo and a well tended bed will provide fresh leaves all summer, and with careful planting |
| Hugh Fernley Whittingstall is starting a scheme where he's helping identify spare land that could be used for growing things on. |
| If you've got a bit of wasteland near you then you could try planting raspberries or blackberries on it in a quiet corner and then seeing how they get on. Planting without permission might technically not be allowed but what magistrate is going to fine you for growing a bit of fruit? (Fingers crossed none!) |
| If your neighbours don't harvest fruit off their trees ask if you can have a basket full and offer to pick them some too (Works well with elderly neighbours who might not be up to harvesting!) |
| Dig the lawn up and grow potatoes there. You hated mowing it anyway |
| Make a compost bin from old pallets and compost all your lawn cuttings and veg peelings to make compost which enriches the soil! It's free! If you don't want to use old pallets then discounted copost bins are usually available through your council. |
| If you love things like corgettes these can be very easy to grow and save you a fortune |
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