I am taking some of the info from a book/pamphlet published in 1975. Not a lot has changed except perhaps the price of water.
If you grow your own veges, you don’t just save money, you get a fantastic bonus – everything you eat is FRESH. The catch may be that you are too successful......when your wife/husband complains that “we are going to look like carrots” or your friends in the office are getting less grateful for the surplus veges you bring in. This tends to happen if you grow from seed – so either share with friends (they could grow 1 type of veg and you could grow another and swap), seed at intervals, or just buy seedlings from a nursery and perhaps start small. But nothing is ever quite so easy as it sounds – there are pests which can be a problem (rabbits seem to eat quite a lot, especially in Donovan Rd) – Loerie can also be a pest, so netting and fencing the area helps a lot as does compost and of course water/irrigation.
If you grow your own veges, you don’t just save money, you get a fantastic bonus – everything you eat is FRESH. The catch may be that you are too successful......when your wife/husband complains that “we are going to look like carrots” or your friends in the office are getting less grateful for the surplus veges you bring in. This tends to happen if you grow from seed – so either share with friends (they could grow 1 type of veg and you could grow another and swap), seed at intervals, or just buy seedlings from a nursery and perhaps start small. But nothing is ever quite so easy as it sounds – there are pests which can be a problem (rabbits seem to eat quite a lot, especially in Donovan Rd) – Loerie can also be a pest, so netting and fencing the area helps a lot as does compost and of course water/irrigation.
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