Do you have a small Garden.?
SAVE A LARGE AMMOUNT OF MONEY IN A small GARDEN.
You don’t have to have a big garden to grow your own?.
That’s all very well to say that, but maybe you don’t have a garden at all. But if you have room for a few pots or tubs, then you have no more excuses, you can grow your vegetables. So many people grow FLOWERS and tend them lovingly. Proud of their Blooms and the wonderful show they can produce. Friends come round and congratulate you on such a lovely garden.
They also are the people like you and me that complain about how the price of fruit and vegetables are forever costing more. The trend towards Organic produce, makes even more expense on the food bill if you choose these products. So why do we grow flowers in such a valuable piece of land. Yes, valuable land, that’s exactly what your garden is, large or small.
My Garden is very small, I can make use of a strip just about 3 ft wide, and 40 ft long. So it’s a long very narrow strip. It was full of lots of different varieties of Heatherr. Looked really nice, but thats all it did. Maybe a little reluctantly I dug out all the heather and got to work weeding and digging over to leave a nice flat even surface. Remember, I have never wanted to or shown interest in gardening, except for keeping it looking tidy.
My Potato Patch
I still wasn’t that excited about doing it at all, but the one factor that kept me going was the fact that shopping each week in the veggie section seemed to be running the bill up more each week. Potatoes, Runner Beans, Spring Onions, Radishes, Beetroot, Lettuce and Dwarf beans, being a lot of our favourite foods, seemed such small quantities, for such a lot of money. You remember that as a pensioner, I had a small budget to cover all my household bills.
Spring Onions,Carrots Radish and Dwarf Beans
The incentive was there. So for a small investment of around £15.00 (UKP) I had all of the above seeds and the time was right (around May time) on to the Internet to get a programme of planting, and the seeds started to go in. Oh yes I forgot, I bought some “grow-bags” to put Tomato seeds in. Now was the waiting time. Intense inspection of the planted area’s each morning became a ritual, but weeds seem to pop up, without any attention at all.
WOW! one day a result,
the Radishes had shown their first leaves sprouting out of the ground…happy days followed and more plants were starting to show. This was the frustrating time where you needed these plants to grow at least three of four times the speed they should.
Tomato. (in growbags)
But the time does pass and you labours start to be rewarded. from early June through till now (late July) We have eaten much much more than was invested. Just the potatoes alone have given us back our original cost. And we are still digging them. So with the rest of the veg, lettuce, beetroot, onions,carrots, runner beans (almost ready) and peas (the same), we have eaten the freshest vegetable’s and salads that just taste better than we could buy. Well we would say that! But it’s true, as a non gardener, and doing just the simple things, and forget all the technical jargon that the specialist use, I have produced a garden that must have saved over £150.00 (UKP) at least, and its now on going.
Lettuce and Beetroot.
So this is my start to the world of gardening, no scientific plan, just stick the seeds in and wait. As you see from the Pics, I dont have a lot of room to work in and this is my first attempt, but I am pleased with how it worked out, and I am eating lots now that there are all in full swing. Have a go! You will surprise yourself! You can do it too!
