Well 1st one of 2007. Hope you had a good 'un.
On the Grapevine ( excellent lively forum see link on left) Someone posted a thread about how much is saved by growing your own and it got me a thinking. Somme time ago I picked up an old Book by Richard Sudell book called "Practical Gardening & food Production" and from reading it I would guess it was written somewhere around 1935 ish. It's full of info that is still good today although a lot of the varieties have gone by the wayside and it;s a bit heavy on the chemical sprays for my liking. But as comparison I tried to work out what the value of the cost's & savings would be in todays money & climate. First problem was to try and rember how much £1 13s 9d would be in this new fangled money !! Then to try and find somwhere where I could calculate the value today.
Any way it was quite enlightening.
The total costs of tools, seeds and seed spuds worked out to £7 15s 3d which worked out to around £300 in todays money.
It then gave a list of crops and the expected yeilds which came out to a total cost to buy at the time of £13 9s 9d (which I suspect was quite a bill in the 1930's) and the cost of the seeds, muck and seed spuds was £2 7s which gave a saving of £11 2s 9d or a saving of around £400 in real terms as they say!!
On the Grapevine ( excellent lively forum see link on left) Someone posted a thread about how much is saved by growing your own and it got me a thinking. Somme time ago I picked up an old Book by Richard Sudell book called "Practical Gardening & food Production" and from reading it I would guess it was written somewhere around 1935 ish. It's full of info that is still good today although a lot of the varieties have gone by the wayside and it;s a bit heavy on the chemical sprays for my liking. But as comparison I tried to work out what the value of the cost's & savings would be in todays money & climate. First problem was to try and rember how much £1 13s 9d would be in this new fangled money !! Then to try and find somwhere where I could calculate the value today.
Any way it was quite enlightening.
The total costs of tools, seeds and seed spuds worked out to £7 15s 3d which worked out to around £300 in todays money.
It then gave a list of crops and the expected yeilds which came out to a total cost to buy at the time of £13 9s 9d (which I suspect was quite a bill in the 1930's) and the cost of the seeds, muck and seed spuds was £2 7s which gave a saving of £11 2s 9d or a saving of around £400 in real terms as they say!!
This is quite some saving so this year I will try and keep an account of costs and see how much it does save. This isn't my main reason for Growing my Own though but if I can save a few bob along the way I think it helps.Here is the lists and I hope you find it as intersting as I did.
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