I only started 'properly' in 2020 and have spent £500/yr since on plants/compost/tools. The idea was to get established and then spend virtually nowt whilst benefitting from any fruit and veg grown for evermore. This year will be the acid test!
Probably far too much! As others have said, not just plants and seeds, but compost, tools, pots... But the pleasure is enormous. Enough money left over from living for plants and books and I'm content.
I'm a bookkeeper, so I track every penny I spend. Right now the garden/yard/landscaping cost is completely out of control because I'm trying to bring the land back to a manageable state, and I've also had to build a barn and living quarters, so there's a lot to deal with. I still haunt the local nurseries for the "sad table", where I pick up plants that are either out of season or struggling. I get them cheap and nurse them back to health in my holding beds. A few years ago we discovered a woman in neighboring Maine was growing and selling lots of native plants as seedlings, so we go to her sales twice yearly and buy too many little plants. My mother grows and sells varieties of hosta and daylilies, along with other perennials, so she recoups some of her investment. As soon as I can get my plants settled and happy enough to be divided, I hope to do the same.
New England, USA
Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
I have spent this year around £200 for seeds, wildflower plants, compost and potash. I have my own compost, which I have used for 2 pots and 3 balcony planters and there is soil left. I bought new compost after being so disappointed with the tomato soil from Westerland last year. I invested into new soil and do hope the new tomato seeds will look better and especially taste again like tomatoes. It was a disaster. I had mentioned that last year in a discussion here.
I took out the shrubs that I had bought 2021 and reverted to a wildlife garden. The £40 seeds will amortise this year and the following years.
The dodgy tomato soil from last year is now in the corner will be turned into compost in the next two years.
I will not buy more plants but only grow from seeds and cuttings, with one exception in buying 6 plug salads for £4 in Spring. I only invested £82 this year into wild flowers to make sure I have something in the garden in case the seeds don’t work out. And they develop well so far 😊 I try to be sustainable as much as possible.
I dare not do the sums. Maybe for the best but due to an error of (computer) memory, I have lost all my records of plants. The frightening part in the past was the realisation of how many of those plants were no longer with me. Now I am in ignorance
In a normal year my spend on the garden is relatively modest - I grow lots of plants from seed and cuttings, so it's seeds & compost mostly, plus council green waste compost for soil improvement. However, this year we're having to fork out a bit over €2000 to have our ailing trees felled, chipped & the stumps ground. And then I'll be buying a couple of disease-resistant trees to stop the garden looking quite so bare... so expenditure this year will be a lot higher than usual.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Not much, If I discount the vegetable garden since that is also commercial and makes money.
Last year I bought one Blueberry one large tub and two sacks of compost for said blueberry. Plus a coxes orange apple tree.
The year before I bought a pair of small plants, (Woodruff and Sweet Cicely) And a spade because one of ours broke.
I would estimate that I spend somewhere between 50 and 100 per year on the garden (equivalent) Normally one plant and maybe a tree plus replacing any tools that break. We probably break a tool every other year or so.
If I add in the vegetables it's a bit more, as in several thousand more, but I can only really count the little bit we use so about £10 worth of seeds and under £3 for compost.
I only grow annuals from seed and most of the seed are from what I've collected last year. I don't smoke or drink alcohol (never liked the taste) so if I do buy a plant I don't feel guilty because I could have wasted that money in a few moments puffing or sipping away but hopefully have the plant for many years. I don't buy garden tools as we use the ones we have inherited from our grandparents, I'm not a gadget kind of guy so I don't have to have the latest fad, I'm like that with plants as well. The majority of my garden is grown from cuttings, seed or swapped divisions. I did buy an amelanchier last year and a mulberry and merry weather damson the year before (both 6ft+ trees being sold for a tenner because the nursery wanted rid of them, they were in perfect health as well), the only money I tend to spend is on fruit trees or new varieties of soft fruit, which I see as an investment.
I do spend quite a lot on the garden its probably the only thing I like when spending money cost isn't my first thought , I go to the garden centres ( round trip ) at least every 2 week sometimes every week . With going to the GCentres often I do know how much everything costs and whether its a good price or over priced , I don't even buy anything most times.
Garden relatively full now so I tend to look at unusual / rare plants more often which come at a premium . I reckon on a normal year £500-600 ish . I've already spent quite a bit already this year on plants - seeds - bulbs nearly £200 but I dont have plans for many more plants this year but for some cannas
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I have my own compost, which I have used for 2 pots and 3 balcony planters and there is soil left. I bought new compost after being so disappointed with the tomato soil from Westerland last year. I invested into new soil and do hope the new tomato seeds will look better and especially taste again like tomatoes. It was a disaster. I had mentioned that last year in a discussion here.
I only invested £82 this year into wild flowers to make sure I have something in the garden in case the seeds don’t work out. And they develop well so far 😊
I try to be sustainable as much as possible.
I ♥ my garden.
Maybe for the best but due to an error of (computer) memory, I have lost all my records of plants. The frightening part in the past was the realisation of how many of those plants were no longer with me. Now I am in ignorance
In the sticks near Peterborough
I don't buy garden tools as we use the ones we have inherited from our grandparents, I'm not a gadget kind of guy so I don't have to have the latest fad, I'm like that with plants as well.
The majority of my garden is grown from cuttings, seed or swapped divisions. I did buy an amelanchier last year and a mulberry and merry weather damson the year before (both 6ft+ trees being sold for a tenner because the nursery wanted rid of them, they were in perfect health as well), the only money I tend to spend is on fruit trees or new varieties of soft fruit, which I see as an investment.
Garden relatively full now so I tend to look at unusual / rare plants more often which come at a premium . I reckon on a normal year £500-600 ish . I've already spent quite a bit already this year on plants - seeds - bulbs nearly £200 but I dont have plans for many more plants this year but for some cannas