I'm in profit

[reetnproper]

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

[Bigmallly]

Nice one reetnproper, at least you're going in the reet direction.........

[phil the shed]

reet' proud 'n' a proper job well done..........

[Caro]

Now, what you really need to do is capitalise the cost of the greenhouse and depreciate it over its useful life, thus giving you more accurate (and higher) profit for this year

Well done. I suspect the gross value of what I cultivated was about £20, and in my first year, what with buying greenhouse and accessories, making raised beds, I won't even dare calculate how much I spent!

But I'm not going to tell OH about your success in case he thinks I should be able to make a profit too

[zazen999]

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

Or you could look at it like your veg just bought you a greenhouse.

Try using farm shop prices; you might find that profit comes in at a much higher value [much higher]....

[reetnproper]

Try using farm shop prices; you might find that profit comes in at a much higher value [much higher]....

Oh now there's an idea

[Florence Fennel]

Reet well done Reet and how do you calculate the enjoyment in monetary terms? I'm guessing you're in the North of England?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Wow - that's good!

Mind you, just to throw a spanner in the works, should you be comparing what you would have spent on fruit and veg against the cost of growing, rather than if you had have bought what you have grown in the shops? (sorry, that's a right mouthful!)

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.

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....

Sorry - I'm just navel gazing!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Reet well done Reet and how do you calculate the enjoyment in monetary terms? I'm guessing you're in the North of England?

And if you factor in 'enjoyment' and 'cost of labour per hour'....

I'll get me coat, shall I?

[Bigmallly]

And if you factor in 'enjoyment' and 'cost of labour per hour'....

I'll get me coat, shall I?

That was one point I was going to make. If you are to have realistic comparisons then labour has to be an important factor. Growers don't come cheap these days........

[zazen999]

And of course, a gym membership that isn't needed.......

[OllieMartin]

Hope you priced in all those extra cups of tea.

[FionaH]

Wow - that's good!

Mind you, just to throw a spanner in the works, should you be comparing what you would have spent on fruit and veg against the cost of growing, rather than if you had have bought what you have grown in the shops? (sorry, that's a right mouthful!)

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.

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....

Sorry - I'm just navel gazing!

I now have a headache

[Hazel at the Hill]

I do, however, go round the supermarket in late Spring and say very loudly, "£3.49 for 3 sticks of rhubarb?? £3.49 for 3 sticks of rhubarb??????", whilst shaking my head, because come May, I can't give the stuff away quickly enough.

[piskieinboots]

Sorry - I'm just navel gazing!

slow work day?