I'm in profit

[johnnyt93]

There is also the factor of interacting with nature in the fresh air versus interacting with your sofa and a reality tv show! Put that in your cost benefit analysis

[Flummery]

And you can't put a price on smugness! I feel right smug when I know I've saved on supermarket prices AND got a better product!

[reetnproper]

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

Veg bed 6ft*3ft = 18sqft
Veg bed 10ft*2ft= 20sqft
Raised beds 3ft*4ft =12sqft *6 = 72sqft

Parsnips
Carrots
Beetroots (3 varieties 2 did well 1 didn't)
Sweetcorn (10 plants)
3 pumpkin plants (7 fruit between them)
3 Cobnut squash plants (14 fruit between them)
2 Winter squash plants (5 fruit between them)
Swede (wont be growing them again)
Spring onions (2 varieties)
Radish (will go back to growing these in the greenhouse this year)
Garlic
Onions (sown from seed and nicely maturing)
Leeks
Rhubarb and a few strawberries.

Also:

In tubs:
4 Ailsa Craig tom plants (outside)
3 Gardeners Delight cherry toms (outside)
6 runner beans (along the lawn fence)
10 french beans (along the lawn fence)
2 Cucumber plants (outside)

Grennhouse
2 Cucumber plants (growbags)
2 Ailsa Craig plants (growbags)
2 Gardeners Delight plants (growbags)
4 sweet peppers (4 fruit from each)
16 chili pepper plants
3 Varieties of lettuce, as well as rocket & land cress on continuous sowing in the 6ftx4ft greenhouse in pots, on benches
3 tubs of carrots sown late August for winter baby carrots.

I think that's about it.

Reet
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[cupcake]

And you can't put a price on smugness! I feel right smug when I know I've saved on supermarket prices AND got a better product!

Not only do I feel smug, I feel virtuous!

[jayjay giant]

Reetnproper I am amazed and astounded. What a fantastic effort and an inspiration to us all. I often tot up what the cost of the vegetables for a meal would be or for the week etc but never for an entire year.
What an achievement.
Great food, exercise, personal development and a real sense of achievement. Plus all the knowledge you have gained.
I am sure you will turn a good profit next year and every year after that.
Well done

JJ

[grahama]

Right I've got 84 ft of raised beds plus a few containers and am moving the raspberries out of the beds so hopefully a good pound per square foot for me too !!