Is is cheaper to grow your own?...Yes and here is the proof

Back in May 2013 i bought a £1 bag of compost from Wilco and 2 cheap bush tomato plants that cost me £1.50.  I planted them in a worn out jute bag (it had holes in ) and decided to be the worst gardener i could be to these poor plants.

I never fed them any fertilizer (tomatoes need regular feeding), i watered them only when the plants wilted during the warmest + driest summer in years (tomatoes also need heaps of watering - twice a day sometimes. They never had full sun (you guessed it they love full sun) and they still grew.

Not only did they grow but they produced delicious fruit, of supermarket quality looks wise and far better flavour.  I didn't weight them but i got around 5 large punnets of tomatoes from them of the quality you see in the last pic. Basically they paid me back more than their cost in great tasty toms.

The pic above is the tomatoes as I planted them in my home greenhouse. The next pic is half way through the harvest period, which lasted nearly 2 months.  As you can see they are not fine looking tomatoe plants by any means, it was abused and lived in the shade.

The last pic is just the ripe tomatoes I picked on the day of the second picture on the left. As you can see there are many more fruits to pick when ripe.

So if you watered them a little more, added a little plant feed and gave them some sun, you would easily double your crop.

So even the lazy, buying everything late, can grow better food cheaper than you can buy them. If you want to know more about how please email us at iwant2livebetter@gmail.com

If you planted the plants from seed and used home made compost these tomatoes below would cost you about 10p and the rest would be ALL FREE.  Who doesn't want free food?