My experiences of gardening entirely for free, which I wrote about for The Guardian newspaper back in 2013, transformed the way that I garden forever.
Attempting to see if it was possible to get by without spending any money at all was an ambitious challenge, but an important one for me. For some years I had been frustrated with my reliance on buying everything I needed for the garden, so after my move to a smallholding in the West of Wales, and much reading of John Seymour’s popular guide to self sufficiency, I wanted to see how much I could step back from the addictive ‘sweetshop’ of 24/7 shopping opportunities at our disposal. I decided to step away from the many ‘must have’ items I felt pressured
