GARDENING The
Dartmouth Gardener
By Alex Webster
Harvest for the World I
n conversation the other day with a fellow allotment- eer, the talk came around to “was it all worth it?” Now, we’re not talking about ending it all and booking a one
way ticket to Switzerland but the question concerned all the effort it takes growing your own vegetables versus going to the super market. We came up with several conclusions…. First of all, you have to ignore the time factor as this can be added to the social and recreational benefits. so starting with costs, even if you grow just a few pots of vegetables on your patio, you’ll save the cost of buying fresh from the supermarket. Tomatoes and leaf salads are good examples of things that will repay the cost of the seed or plants several
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times over. Imagine the cost through the summer of those little pillows of salad. With a bit of planning and a little imagination, a whole season’s worth of cut-again salads could be yours for just a few pounds. And by growing your own baby salad leaves, you can
serve up a fresh salad literally minutes after being picked. Dwarf French and runner beans are pretty cost-effec-
tive. A dozen well-grown runners should yield up to 10kg of beans and a square metre of dwarf beans just slightly less than that. If you have an allotment, you should be able to produce
all your own fresh vegetables, through the summer at least and plenty to store or freeze for winter. One recent survey suggested that a typical plot could save you around £1,500 a year. Unlike vegetables that are produced commercially, you control what products you grow. You get to choose not to use pesticides to control pests and diseases, opting for preventive measures instead. Should you
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