The value of my subscription?

[HeyWayne]

Now, if I could just work out how to cancel my subscription....

[Mikey]

I think this is my 3rd year, and I still enjoy getting it. I tend not to read the one that's just arrived, but read the last month. I use it as a prompt to get my butt into gear.

I think there is a wealth of information on here, but I still like the magazine, I'll never confess to knowing everything, and I enjoy having something to thumb through, that interests me.

There are others, but I'm only interested in fruit and veg, so flowers and trees hold no interest for me at all.

[EddieJ]

Gardening magazines as a whole are their own worst enemy as in being trapped by one topic and one topic only.

Magazines such as Home Farmer score above dedicated gardening mags because of diversity. Veg growing, animal husbandry, making things, and excellent recipes, all serve to create a magazine that has something for everyone.

And if you are going to give free packets of seeds away, do it at an earlier time, not after everyone has already bought them.

[Alison]

I randomly got sent last month's copy of a rival mag the other day without any explanation - can only assume it's to encourage me to restart the subscription that somebody got me in the past for my birthday.

[weekendwellies]

i stopped the sub a while back and I cant say I have missed anything about it. I have kept all my old copies going back 3 years and not much changes. I have more than enough seeds so that didnt keep my interest either. I have been dabbling a bit with the Garden News, comes out weekly and is a newspaper not a glossy mag. There is lots of advertising material dressed up to look like articles, and it has quite a bit about flowers and shrubs rather than fruit and veg, but all in all I think I would rather have that.

[SarzWix]

I've just started reading mine again recently, after a good few months of just shoving it in the pile. There have been a couple of changes in contributors, so that gives something new to look at.

Like someone was saying up there ^, I do like the diversity in some other mags that are more focussed on the entire lifestyle of smallholding, although I'm not lucky enough to have the land available to do it. I see it a bit like reading Seymour's 'guide for realists and dreamers'

[miffy]

I still read mine, and then pass them onto others who avidly read them including our school gardening club, though as many have said not really reading every thing in it as now have a greater knowledge base myself and a lot of the contents is a repeat from last year.

[Chitfaced]

If anyone has mags they no longer want, consider passing them on to a newbie would you?
Certainly please don't let them sit unread in polythene or throw them away. I am lapping up as much info as I can at the moment.

Send them my way! I'm happy to send an SAE...

[Florian]

If anyone has mags they no longer want, consider passing them on to a newbie would you?
Certainly please don't let them sit unread in polythene or throw them away. I am lapping up as much info as I can at the moment.

Send them my way! I'm happy to send an SAE...

This is a great idea!

I also managed to pick up pretty much a year's worth of magazines on ebay this time last year. Might be worth a look

[Paul Wagland]

Chitfaced - I think I have some double-copies of back issues I can dig out for you, if you're happy paying the postage?

[Blueberries]

I have a quick look through it and then shove it in the garage. I dont think I will renew my subscription, and as Shirl says you get far more info on here.

[Newtothis]

The only problem that I see with all this re-use and recycling of the mags is that if everyone stopped buying it then where would the money to keep the grapevine going come from.
And BTW Glutton you're quoted in this months mag, giving a really helpful pearl of wisdom.
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