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Penny Pinching Tips – Gardens

If you’re considering starting a garden, then congratulations. You have already taken a big step towards cutting your food costs, making sure that you have healthy fresh food and making sure that you get out into the fresh air and having some healthy exercise. Growing flowers is also a matter for congratulations – the sight and scent of fresh flowers may not feed your body, but it will feed your soul, which is just as important – and fresh flowers from your own garden are a much more thoughtful gift for a hostess or a loved one than a shop-bought bouquet.

If you listen to the people at the garden shops, you might think that growing a garden is an expensive business. You have to buy all sorts of this and that – sprays, fertilizer, snail bait, seeds, growth hormones for plants, even compost starter or special compost bins – according to these people who want to sell you things. While it is certainly true that you will need some outlay in terms of tools, seeds and possibly seedlings.

But with a few clever tricks, you can cut down on quite a few of your gardening costs, both for growing flowers and for growing vegetables.

* Practicing crop rotation means that any pests or diseases that may affect your crops do not have the time to build up. This will reduce any outlay in sprays and other treatments to eliminate the pests. In general, don’t plant crops from the same genus (or family) in the same plot for two successive plantings. For example, if you have planted cauliflowers (which are brassicas) in one patch, don’t follow it straight away with another brassica, such as turnips, cabbages or broccoli.

* Companion planting is another way to reduce the need for sprays, as your crops will protect each other.

* Compost is the best fertilizer, especially as it’s organic. You can find bits and pieces to go in your compost heap all over the place. For good compost, have a mixture of things, not just lawn clippings. Keep your eyes open in your community – can you take a neighbour’s fallen leaves away, or remove the food scraps after a church or club luncheon? Horse owners are often only too grateful if you take manure away – and other animals such as guinea pigs, rabbits and even caged birds provide good manure, too, so if you know a pet owner, offer to take away the old litter. The owner of a rabbit or guinea pig will often be only too happy to swap old straw and manure for edible weeds (dandelions, clover, grass) and other bits you don’t need from your garden, such as the outer leaves of broccoli and cauliflower, carrot tops and so forth. Also keep an eye out in public places – beaches are often a good source of seaweed, and if you don’t mind being thought eccentric and you aren’t squeamish, road kill and pigeon droppings off statues can also go into the mix.

* Potatoes are very easy to grow and produce a good yield for a lowish amount of input. You can use seed potatoes to start them off, but don’t forget that you can cut these in half and grow two plants for one seed, as long as both halves have a growing “eye”. You can also use potatoes that have gone green.

* Old three-litre and two-litre plastic bottles – if they’re clear – can be used as mini bell cloches to protect lettuces and the like over window. Cut the nozzle off.

* Save seeds, either from one season to the next, or from shop-bought vegetables. I seem to get volunteer pumpkins growing from seed in the unlikeliest places all through my garden, and these seem to do better than the deliberately planted pumpkins. Tomatoes, if your area is warm enough , also grow well from seed.

If you decide to grow your own vegetables, you will not only need to do a regular domestic cleaning London, but also cleaning the garden regularly.

Sunday Lunch Menu for parents 25th wedding anniversary?

Everything is homemade by me! Starters: You can have,

Mushroom, beef, crepes & apple pie.

Local organic veg with Antony Worrell Thompson

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