The average family spends around £250 per year on vegatables alone. No wonder that there has been a sharp increase in the “grow your own brigade” returning to the good life with waiting lists in many areas for council garden allotments. After you’ve sorted yourself out why not supply any surplus stock to family and friends at discount prices sufficient to cover your annual rent and planting costs.

If allotment gardening sounds too much of a challenge then why not just turn part of your garden into a vegatable patch .For an initial outlay of about £15 you should be able grow a years suply of vegatables.

There is no shortage of books available on growing your own vegatables and allotment gardening. One of the most popular is The Kitchen Gardener :Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg by Alan Titchmarsh which has some customer cracking reviews on Amazon .

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