The ups and downs and ins and outs of growing your own, 2018

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Hello folks and welcome to the 2018 grow your own thread! I'm a day late with this, sorry. You can blame the New Year's Day hangover!
Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans
What do you like to grow?
Are you going to try anything different this year?
Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again?
Do you have any tips for growing?
Do you make anything with what you grow?
How much does growing your own save you?
Happy new year, and happy growing!
I'll use this post for links that folks might find useful. If you want something adding in, please just let me know
There's a fab Facebook group called "Allotment Life" I'm not affiliated to it in any way but it's a fab little group. It's a closed group but is worth looking up if you're on Facebook. Or there is a fab group called "Allotment Club - mind your peas and cues"
Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans
What do you like to grow?
Are you going to try anything different this year?
Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again?
Do you have any tips for growing?
Do you make anything with what you grow?
How much does growing your own save you?
Happy new year, and happy growing!
I'll use this post for links that folks might find useful. If you want something adding in, please just let me know
There's a fab Facebook group called "Allotment Life" I'm not affiliated to it in any way but it's a fab little group. It's a closed group but is worth looking up if you're on Facebook. Or there is a fab group called "Allotment Club - mind your peas and cues"
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I've decided that two plots on two sites with a full time job is just too much so I've applied to the council to get a plot on the chicken site. There's one I've got my eye on so I'm hoping that I'll get it quite soon
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Jan 2019 Grocery Challenge = £0/£260
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I've still got some of last year's tomatoes in the fridge...
I go for a nice old fashioned variety, Ailsa Craig. I think they're really tasty and I just can't eat anything shop bought anymore - by comparison they're just too watery
Why am I in this handcart and where are we going ?
Why am I in this handcart and where are we going ?
It was lovely and quiet and although muddy I can see things taking shape.
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Can I pop along on this journey to? I only have a few fruit plants in my very small garden this year but am looking at becoming as self-sufficient as I can do, so will need all the help I can get
January 2018 Grocery Challenge - £42.88/280 20p Savers - £5.20p Virtual Sealed Pot No. 14 - £19.04/£260 Mortgage Overpayments - £0/£1,200 Sealed Pot No 37 :j
Hopefully this year I will be growing broad beans,these seem to be bulletproof and never let me down (tempting fate I know),black beans which I've never grown before but I think are similar to broad beans,French beans which I did try a couple of years ago,started them off indoors in pots,they grew well but as soon as I planted them out the slimeys ate them within days ��I shall grow them in two long troughs and make a bean arch,onions are on the menu and finally tomatoes,I never have any luck growing them from seed so will buy them as small plants,which does limit me variety wise but there you go.
As for varieties I tend to go for unusual over proven so will peruse the Jungle seeds website.
Looking forward to reading everybody else's trials and tribulations,I lurked on last years thread but hopefully will have more of an input this year.