This Week's Money Saving Tip
Grow Your own Food
There's been a lot of publicity about growing your own fruit & veg this year, for a very good reason.....It pays to do so, not only financially but in quality because you tend to pick the veg just before you use it AND there's no pesticides.
You don't need a garden to grow your own, but of course it helps, however, you can grow herbs, tomatoes, spring onions, lettuce etc in pots and you can buy very small fruit trees which grow in a pot. You can gets lots of information from the BBC's Gardener's World website and of course watch their programme on BBC2 at 8pm on Friday evenings.
If you're really serious about growing your own, then you may want to rent an allotment for £40-£60 a year, from your local council. You need to find your nearest one as it doesn't pay if you have to travel to the site just to water your plants everyday in the height of summer. Some sites have a waiting list of years but there are still vacant plots around.
It's best to grow your veg from seed, money-wise, but it's not always practical and indeed too late for some now, so you can buy ready grown plants such as tomatoes, runner beans and the like, and plant them out (or indoors for tomatoes).
Give it a go if you haven't already - There's something very satisfying about eating food you've grown yourself and you can't beat the taste!
There's been a lot of publicity about growing your own fruit & veg this year, for a very good reason.....It pays to do so, not only financially but in quality because you tend to pick the veg just before you use it AND there's no pesticides.
You don't need a garden to grow your own, but of course it helps, however, you can grow herbs, tomatoes, spring onions, lettuce etc in pots and you can buy very small fruit trees which grow in a pot. You can gets lots of information from the BBC's Gardener's World website and of course watch their programme on BBC2 at 8pm on Friday evenings.
If you're really serious about growing your own, then you may want to rent an allotment for £40-£60 a year, from your local council. You need to find your nearest one as it doesn't pay if you have to travel to the site just to water your plants everyday in the height of summer. Some sites have a waiting list of years but there are still vacant plots around.
It's best to grow your veg from seed, money-wise, but it's not always practical and indeed too late for some now, so you can buy ready grown plants such as tomatoes, runner beans and the like, and plant them out (or indoors for tomatoes).
Give it a go if you haven't already - There's something very satisfying about eating food you've grown yourself and you can't beat the taste!
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