Selecting contemporary chives
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It’s an article that appears to come back round yearly: the promise that the typical household can lower your expenses by rising their very own fruit and greens. Whether or not they echo “dig for victory” wartime nostalgia or romantic pioneer spirit, the writers by no means actually reference how they arrived on the stats they use. So can your common residence gardener actually compete on worth in opposition to the economies of scale of business agriculture? Let’s crunch the numbers.
Say you wish to begin with a type of bucolic, picket potato-growing planters you see in gardening catalogues. Within the UK, these…
