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Share seed buying with a group. By 4 people each buying a separate packet of seeds, as some contain hundreds of seeds, the cost can be reduced by 75%. Seek out your local allotment society shop for some real savings. Runners from strawberry plants give free plants, and cuttings are easily taken from fruit bushes and canes.
Feeds, such an essential requirement, can be made at a fraction of the cost of shop bought feed. Make seaweed feed by leaving a few handfuls in a bucket, straining, and then use a cupful in each watering can. Make an excellent feed by hanging a bag of nettles, comfrey and manure in a barrel of water and, again, a cupful per watering can. This makes the most fantastic feed. Talking of water: collect as much rain water as you can. This will reduce allotment site water bills and plants prefer this. Always collect leaves for leaf mould
Make an excellent feed by hanging a bag of nettles, comfrey and manure in a barrel of water
and make a compost heap your priority. From this you could even try making your own seed pot compost. The priority, however, is to ensure you enrich your soil. It is the basis for everything we do.
The only thing better than recycling is more recycling. Very little, and I mean virtually nothing, cannot be reused. Bottoms cut from milk cartons make excellent plant pots. Plastic pop bottles make cloches, mushroom containers make seed trays. We must just use our imagination to reduce the plastic polluting our environment by using these for as many years as we can before they are professionally recycled.
So please enjoy your garden and give your pocket a rest.
Brian Diver
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