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Growing your own food is an inexpensive way to add delicious, fresh, wholesome ingredients to your meals. I started growing as much of my own food as possible out of necessity. With three young children and a tiny income, my edible garden was a key way of helping stretch our household budget. The harvests not only save money on food bills, but also can be made into drinks, home cleaning products and body care. It can be done spending very little money.
In this series I will share my tried and tested tips for growing your own food, year-round, on a budget. Home gardeners and allotmenteers are a thrifty lot, finding ways to reuse and repurpose on their plots, seeing