Nonsense. I started with six raspberry plants, and I've had three kilos of vitamin c in my freezer all winter. That's not counting the onions, garlic, rhubarb, blueberries, blackcurrants, turnip, carrots, kale, spinach, Brussels sprouts...
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All my berry plants came from Poundland! Rasps are the easiest as neither slugs nor birds seem to eat them, whereas I have to rigorously net my currant and blueberry bushes.
All berries cost a bomb in supermarkets regardless of the season so I think they are a good place to start.
Yes! I'll be in Poundland for a few seeds this spring, they're actually more fertile than ordering from a fancy catalogue. I compared some last year and Poundland won hands down for success, even the flowers.
By the way, all I ate growing up in the 1960s was from the garden. When we left farming, we just grew all our own food. Great veg soups, stews and now I added curries to it.
I'm growing beans, it's easy, they scramble up climbing frames, I'm allergic to wheat, and I'm vegan. So? Plus, in all my years of hospital nursing, I've never been a patient. Last cold I had? Years ago.
I think it's best not to listen to naysayers, they're just scared people.
Probably. Some people are afraid of others' success. Don't be put off. Anything you grow will taste better, not be filled with pesticides and after year one- free.
I grow a garden each year. I go heavy on one thing, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and then grow whatever I fancy eating. I put up the excess each year. Do I totally feed us with the garde? Not really, but I put a dent in our grocery bill. I know how my food has been raised.
Sounds like great fun, and any surplus you have can be swapped with other growers, or preserved for the winter. I'm working on a root store for next year, as I've a couple of spare recycling boxes
Im realistic. I grew up subsistence living. It is HARD. And it is unrealistic to think 350 million Americans can grow enough food on their balcony to sustain them
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All berries cost a bomb in supermarkets regardless of the season so I think they are a good place to start.
I think it's best not to listen to naysayers, they're just scared people.