The cost of our plot depends on the size- mine is half £15 + £5 PA for membership. We have a shop!! and can buy stuff at trade prices like seeds compost netting etc. We a have a committee with tons of rules, It is a beautiful place, plots are divided with manicured grass, we have various competitions, best plot best scarecrow and heavens know what else.
The cost? Most thing have been given or got from freecycle. The pleasure of eating your own stuff is priceless.
I do spend quite a bit on my garden but have never added it up.
I seem to spend quite a bit on my garden - but then it is quite new and we're still establishing new beds and other features.
But, I don't need to pay for a gym membership to get exercise, and don't need to pay for summer veg and have lots of tomatoes and courgettes etc still in the freezer, and we're still eating home grown raspberries from the freezer too.
We have a lovely terrace where we sit outside on summer evenings (remember those?) with a glass of something good and watch the birds, bats and hedgehogs so we don't need to go out using petrol and pay pub prices.
We have a garden where we can entertain our friends and family.
I think we get good value .
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think I spend around £100/year - I recoup quite a bit of this just by growing salad leaves and tomatoes. I got nearly all this years seed by exchanging club card vouchers. This will be my first full year in my new garden so I'm looking forward to seeing the balance sheet in the autumn.
I have half a plot in a densely populated part of south London which costs £48 per year. this includes running water from March to October, toilets, trade prices on compost etc, and all the free manure & christmas tree shreddings you are able to wheelbarrow onto your plot. I buy most of my seeds in half price sales, 99p store or save my own. I always grow far too many plants from seeds so give away loads or sell them at the local school fair. It's a lot of hard work, but do I enjoy it? YES! it's a wonderful outlet, you're in the fresh air, meet loads of people and above all else you know what you're eating and from where. Highly recommend it.
I'd be afraid to count how much I spend , in the same way I'd not like to know how much it costs to run my car, or heat my house. Whatever it is, to me at least, it's worth every penny. I love my garden.
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Claire when I smoked it was 40 a day. At 9euro for 20 that is 126 euro a week.
Don't think I ever spent that much in a year on my veg garden.
The cost of our plot depends on the size- mine is half £15 + £5 PA for membership. We have a shop!! and can buy stuff at trade prices like seeds compost netting etc. We a have a committee with tons of rules, It is a beautiful place, plots are divided with manicured grass, we have various competitions, best plot best scarecrow and heavens know what else.
The cost? Most thing have been given or got from freecycle. The pleasure of eating your own stuff is priceless.
I do spend quite a bit on my garden but have never added it up.
I seem to spend quite a bit on my garden - but then it is quite new and we're still establishing new beds and other features.
But, I don't need to pay for a gym membership to get exercise, and don't need to pay for summer veg and have lots of tomatoes and courgettes etc still in the freezer, and we're still eating home grown raspberries from the freezer too.
We have a lovely terrace where we sit outside on summer evenings (remember those?) with a glass of something good and watch the birds, bats and hedgehogs so we don't need to go out using petrol and pay pub prices.
We have a garden where we can entertain our friends and family.
I think we get good value
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think I spend around £100/year - I recoup quite a bit of this just by growing salad leaves and tomatoes. I got nearly all this years seed by exchanging club card vouchers. This will be my first full year in my new garden so I'm looking forward to seeing the balance sheet in the autumn.
Being the one who asked the question about cost of this hobby what comes over from the replies its not a hobby its LURRV.
I have half a plot in a densely populated part of south London which costs £48 per year. this includes running water from March to October, toilets, trade prices on compost etc, and all the free manure & christmas tree shreddings you are able to wheelbarrow onto your plot. I buy most of my seeds in half price sales, 99p store or save my own. I always grow far too many plants from seeds so give away loads or sell them at the local school fair. It's a lot of hard work, but do I enjoy it? YES! it's a wonderful outlet, you're in the fresh air, meet loads of people and above all else you know what you're eating and from where. Highly recommend it.
Anyone who rearly wants to grow food can make a deal with an older garden owner
who cannot now do the work, or a young person with no time.
you trim the hedge, or cut the lawn, in return for the space to grow your veg.
and maybe share some veg!!
I'd be afraid to count how much I spend , in the same way I'd not like to know how much it costs to run my car, or heat my house. Whatever it is, to me at least, it's worth every penny. I love my garden.
I agree Hostafan. Best not counted. I can't do sums anyway.
In the sticks near Peterborough