I'm in profit

[Flummery]

'Appen she's just got a pretty navel?

[piskieinboots]

I'd say so

[Hazel at the Hill]

slow work day?

Put it this way, I've buffed the sink & folded the towels!

[reetnproper]

LOL.

As an example, if you harvested 20lb of rasps, and yet you would only have bought - say - 5lb in the shops if you didn't have your plot, you have only 'saved' the money that you would have spent on the 5lb of rasps, not the whole of what the 20lb would have cost you.


Due to the amount of space we have, I do tend to only grow stuff that we would normally buy anyway but doesn't take up large areas of space: carrots, parsnips, runner and french beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, leeks, sweetcorn for example. Things like cauliflowers, brussel sprouts and brocolli, for instance, I still buy in as these are too large to justify trying to grow in our space.

Complicating things even more, is if you turn some of the 15lb spare rasps (which you would not have spent money on in the supermarket) into jam, thus saving you the cost of buying the amount of jam you would have bought (less cost of sugar etc used to make the jam) AND the fact that you might be giving some of your jam away as presents, thus saving whatever you have budgeted for gifts....

What surplus I've had has gone in to the freezer or soups pickles and chutneys , so, yes, I'm pretty sure I'm still quids in and you forgot to mention the saving on the old School Harvest Festival contribution .

Labour hours I'm not even going to factor in, as my time is without value.

Enjoyment factor negates the labour hours anyway, as it too is without value (even on a rainy, blustery, bitterly cold winters morning, digging for parsnips, under 3 inches of snow). Not to mention the value of the sadistic pleasure of sacrificing slugs, snails and other bugs at the feet of our tame Mrs Blackbird, which can be achieved by imagining them to be parts of ones husband after a blazing row over absolutely nothing .

I'm getting richer by the second

Reet
x

[SMT]

One little point to remember is that your own grown veg probably tastes much better than what you would buy from the supermarket. That must count for something? Well done. I have several years before my poly tunnel pays for its self! lol.

[Dane End Dolly]

well done misses

[pipkins]

Well done Reet

I find myself tut tutting all the time in the supermarket, Little C asked for some strawbs the other day, I replied not on your Nelly @ �3.00 for 10

[Bren In Pots]

Reet isn't it a good feeling when you've picked and eaten your own crops

[Snadger]

And you're in tune with your environment. You've eaten locally produced organic food, in season, and cut down on air miles!

[bramble]

That's what money can't buy, the freshness of your own home grown fruit and veg plus knowing there is no pesticides or other chemicals in them.

[COMPOST CORNER]

That's what money can't buy, the freshness of your own home grown fruit and veg plus knowing there is no pesticides or other chemicals in them.

So true. I always thought sweetcorn tasted good until I had some cooked within minutes of picking, then I realised that what I had eaten before was a poor imitation of real sweetcorn.

[mogs]

my favourite tut tut in the Supermarket is 'what only French apples' in a country famous for the range of apples we grow ... so you could always add the savings of not transporting said apples to the Supermarket and that would make a huge profit! Is that right or am I just becoming an extremely Creative Accountant?? Works for me!

[Two_Sheds]

What surplus I've had has gone in to the freezer or soups pickles and chutneys

I've got �148 worth of chutney in my cupboard (based on Waitrose prices)

[grahama]

How big a plot did you have planted out for your profit??

[Ringo Grumio Nibbler]

This year, as I've harvested my veg I've been weighing/counting and logging it all onto a spreadsheet. Using the price check facility of the well known supermarket that I shop at, I have been able to see just how much my endeavours have saved us.

This year with compost, feed, seeds and new small greenhouse etc my overall expenditure on the garden was �376.52 .

Now with 1 parsnip left in the ground and 2 dozen maincrop onions maturing nicely, I have, in total, grown the equivalent of �382.65 in veg .

That's a whopping profit of �6.13 I'm so very proud of myself .

Well ok, it's not a huge profit but this year I wont have to buy the greenhouse and wont be wasting space on crops that I now know wont grow well in our soil. I will be trying potatoes, so this time next year ..........

Regards
Reet
xx

Surely your home grown (organic?) produce is worth at least 15% more than supermarket veg?