Comments on: Is it cost effective to grow your own veg part 2!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 12:08:44 +0000

My partner and I are soon to be moving into a house with a garden and we can't wait to start growing our own veg! although we would like to save money we believe the value in knowing where your food is coming from is a real value in itself! I found this post really interesting and encouraging, thanks so much!

By: Zoe

Zoe — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:02:50 +0000

That's great to know and very inspiring lightly crunchy! Hopefully we will do better next year!

By: lightlycrunchy

lightlycrunchy — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:22:09 +0000

I would say that our garden is definitely cost effective. For just under $200 dollars in seed, we planted 1/4 acre and produced food for the entire season. Our freezer is full of produce and will get us through the winter as well. I haven't taken into account the extra cost of hydro for running the freezers, but we would have had them anyway – we live rurally, so we stock our freezers in order to make less trips into town for groceries.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:17:17 +0000

Thanks for your comment Poor and Gluten Free. I'm working on a link up page, so will add your link there. Thanks for hosting your Waste Not Want Not Wednesday linky party!

By: Poor and Gluten Free

Poor and Gluten Free — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:45:58 +0000

Hi Zoe,

This is a great post, and I'm sure that now that you have some experience next year will be more profitable! I've done a fair amount of container gardening (never had a garden and am jealous of everyone who does!) and I've even found that to be helpful in saving a few bucks.

Thank you for sharing this on Waste Not Want Not Wednesday at Poor and Gluten Free.blogspot.com - would you please put a link back to the Waste Not Want Not link up on your post somewhere? Thanks :)

By: Zoe

Zoe — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:07:08 +0000

Thanks for your comment not just green fingers. It's inspiring to hear you did so well out of your allotments. I think next year we need to convert more of our garden into veg growing space, but not spend money on raised beds and compost! I like the idea of an allotment, but I think there are long waiting lists for them in my area!

By: Zoe

Zoe — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:57:58 +0000

I agree Becky I love that my children know where vegetables come from!

By: Zoe

Zoe — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:55:46 +0000

Thanks anonymous for all the good tips!

By: notjustgreenfingers

notjustgreenfingers — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:20:01 +0000

Hi I've just found your blog and I've found it really interesting to read.

I too wondered the same thing-is growing my own veg cost effective?

At the time I had three allotments (I have four now) and I didn't see the point in paying out for manure seeds etc if it was cheaper to buy veg from the supermarket.

So form 1/1/11 until 31/12/11, I weighed verything I harvest and looked up how much it would have cost me if I bought it from the supermarket...I based it on the cheapest 'value' veg you could buy at the time 9even though my veg was organic).

I found there were things you just can not buy from the supermarkets eg patty pans, fresh gherkins etc

I found by the end of the year, I had harvest over £1600 worth of veg. This figure didn't include any veg I gave away so if I included this It would have been more.

I also kept a list of the money I spent on seeds manure etc and it was actually under £100.

So yes...for me, growing my own veg is definately cost effective.

Thanks for your post

By: Becky Goddard-Hill

Becky Goddard-Hill — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:17:51 +0000

Thanks you so much for linking up at Sunday Inspiration http://babybudgeting.co.uk/sunday-inspiration-stumble-on/ I think the positive for your kids in terms of learning outweighs the rest x