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The Cost of Growing Vegetables

7/7/2014

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We have had three allotments over the years, but in all honesty we (by which of course I mean Anne) have never been able to do it quite the way proper allotment owners do. Them:
Cost of allotment £16
Cost of half of allotment middle-class newbies can't manage £0
Cost of shed taken from next door's abandoned allotment £0
Cost of endless bits of plastic and wood pilfered from skips £0
Cost of incredibly useful cloches in Aldi  £1.99
Cost of seeds swapped, and kept back, and free in magazines £0
Overall cost per vegetable 0.1pence


As opposed to us:  
Cost of 72 gardening books all telling you the same thing £990
Cost of two sheds to house shiny new tools and someone to build them £800
Cost of three raised beds using railway sleepers £280
Cost of Greenhouse £400
Cost of plug plants to replace all the tomato seedlings the dog ate £25
Cost of grow-feed, slug-pellets, vitamins, acupuncture and homeopathic remedies £125
Overall cost per vegetable £2.10

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