Sunday Roast: Grow Your Own Vegetables

Sunday Roast: Grow Your Own Vegetables Buying From A Supemarket Growing Your Owm Vegetables Renting an allotment for a year - an average of £35 Investment in the tools and equipment you will need: Is growing your vegetables really cheaper than buying them from a supermarket? And how does it compare to eating a Think of all the money you could save if you grew your own vegetables for every meal! Wheelbarrow - £39.98 carvery every weekend? Rake - £14.98 Hoe - £14.98 Potatoes Growing Your Own Vegetables 2.5kg bag - £1.90 Spade and Fork - £19.19 Secateurs - £9.98 Potatoes – Maris Piper 12 Tuber Pack £1.99 (enough for a 12ft row or 3-4 potato planters) Broccoli Trowel - £5.98 335g - £o.97 Hand fork - £5.98 Broccoli – 1 pack of 100 seeds costs £2.00 Compost 1251 - £7.48 Peas Frozen garden peas ikg - £1.40 Peas – 1 pack of 200 seeds costs £o.95 Total Cost of Tools £118.55 Carrots – 1 pack of 2000 seeds costs £0.95 Cating AtA Carvery Carrots 1.2kg bag - £1.00 Cauliflower – 1 pack of 250 seeds costs £ô.95 Average cost of one carvery is £5.95, so to feed a family of four on a Sunday it would cost £23.80 per week Total Cost of Seeds Cauliflower 335g - £1.00 £6.84 Total yearly cost to have a carvery every week for a family of four £1237.60 Total yearly cost to grow your own vegetables for a Sunday Roast £125.39 Total yearly cost to buy your own vegetables for a Sunday Roast £326.04