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Take the £10 veg challenge

You don’t need a large space or lots of experience to grow a range of tasty, organic vegetables this summer. For as little as £10, even veg novices can grow produce worth over 10 times that amount in the supermarket. Last year in our relatively small suburban garden I sowed nine different crops and ended up harvesting over £130 worth of veg from just one raised bed (1.2m x 3.5m) and a few containers.

In addition to buying the seed packets, the only other cost was a bag of peat-free compost and a small amount of liquid feed for the crops that we

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