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im in that palning stage you mention so thank you my gf is orderiing eeds right now

As an avid gardener, I know that my family eats better for my efforts. There is no way we could afford all of the leeks, scallions, cantaloupe, strawberries, sweet peas….and so much more, without the garden. I added chickens 3 years ago to help clean up the garden and kitchen waste. The eggs are night & day from the store! Fresh eggs taste amazing. The garden gives us food, peace of mind, lots of exercise and brings our family together for lots of meals and laughs.

Salad crops, kale and chard are very much ‘cash’ crops, (as well as chilis, but you are unlikely to grow them in a front garden unless we get some really fine weather!) and perennial herbs will all save money. But there is also the taste, enjoyment of being able to eat what you took the time to grow, getting outside and just having fun with it. I’m lucky to have a good garden space, but we started small, like six beds and one apple tree (a very short, stocky tree, fine for small gardens) and have slowly grown each year.

Would you mind putting a link in the description for the wood and soil please? I can't find wood, weed membrane and soil for that amount of money.

Principles are universally true, based on my own experience. And that is the key word key, experience. So not universally true?

The moment you said chocolate flavour I was hooked and off to find how I can grow some 😂

My parents hated growing vegetables but when they retired they both started to grow food as the pension doesn't go as far. My generation thinks they earn enough am in my early 60's, but the ones who are renting or are spending all their income on EXPERIENCES, now realise they will be working until they are 75 due to their lifestyles. Am constantly experimenting growing eating plants in containers.

Isn't that £20 per month just for the first year? So possible for future years if you dont have to spend more costs?

If you make your own compost and grow only heirloom verieties, everything past your first year is practically free. You could buy your self a bottle of liquid seaweed every couple of years to get bigger crops. That would be a whopping £2-3 a year dependant on how much you use.

what material is used???

For me it's a hobby and relaxing thing to do. But i only grow interesting stuff, that i can't really buy otherwise. Like different tomatoes or chilis. And i love berries of all kinds to have ready for my breakfast. Or fresh herbs. But i will never "waste" my time growing potatoes or onions. They are cheap even in best quality to buy local. And i know for other people its not a waste of time, or they want to be truly independent. But im not independent when it comes to drinking water or antibiotics, so why should i be when it comes to food. Each to their own, but i have a full time office job and besides running / hiking, growing plants is really relaxing, especially when you can eat said plants (i do have some flowers too though :P)

BTW #palletsurrounds They're free from a lot of places and make great raised bed.

I can't wait the end of the renovation of my house, and move there. I'll buy some extra land and I will install some raised bed. I planned it since a while. I will plant chilis (I already have some experience), sweet potatos and who knows what else. I must use raised beds due to the poor soil quality (that area is the worst countrywide). I'll also cultivate some mushrooms both on logs and in bags. I wish I could be already there. Thanks for sharing the end result. It encourages me to invest more energy into it. :)

Love it!

Hello, Nice vidéo thanks. I would like to add to your introduction that many people forgot how to preserve products for winter.

Aussie here...congratulations! We have done the same..dug up our front lawn and installed raised garden beds ( quite high because we are in our 70"s). The cost in high in the set-up phase, but the yields, enjoyment, and ability to eat fresh produce outweighs any initial cost. We freeze excess ( tomatoes beans carrots onions). And, our garden is the stopping point for all the pedestrians passing by. 😊

I have thick trees along back fence birds galore and squirrels I don't think I'd have much luck :(

I love when people have the discipline to track their costs and expenses with gardening, I'm so very bad at it. But I think i do, over all, save money with mine, especially as I make a large profit in the spring selling seedlings, and then you add in that it's a hobby, and of course hobby's cost money and most of them save you nothing.

Beautiful accent. Your voice is so calming.

If you added in labour and time doing this you would not be to saving. £19.67 dose not get 2hrs of work in the garden, but if you like gardening maybe it is worth it.

Here from the UK,

My parents were able to pass on a plethora of planting and growing knowledge to me and my siblings, so I do think the knowledge is being passed down every generation

Excellent video and very accurate!!! Im in Missouri, gardening Zone 6b. I began gardening when covid hit and the world shut down. I began with an elevated raised bed of onions and lettuces and a bucket of tomatoes. I now have a garden thats 240 sq. ft., a separate growing are for melons (they really take over!!!❤), and im growing indoors. We eat year round, I'm growing year round. I have the exact same covers for my outdoor beds, I'm seed starting and seed growing indoors, im growing microgreens and bean sprouts for fresh salads, and I'm growing warm weather parthenocarpic varieties of fruits and veggies in here until I can get out there!😊 Again, EXCELLENT video. I really enjoyed it. THANK YOU!!!🫑🫘🥒🥬🥔🧅🍈🥒🫘🫑🥜🫘🫑🥬

I focus on growing expensive foods that don’t keep well (lettuce, rasp, green beans, asparagus, cherries) &things that keep very well (cabbage, squash, pumpkin). I make room to grow everything else. I skip carrots&potatoes - too disappointing (heavy clay soil). My food bill is mostly flour/sugar, meat & dairy. Still high, but such a short list, lol!

Spot on, we grow food all year round but then we live in Thailand our hard season is the hot months where the sun bakes the soil like concrete

Thanks for this <3

Bonjour ici j'ai économise plus de 1000 euros j'ai fait une vidéo également sur combien j'ai économiser, un jardin nous le rend bien 😊

I had the advantage of growing up on a farm, but the way I grow now bears little resemblance to the way my Granddad grew. He had acres. I have a fairly large back yard garden --24 raised beds plus containers. I preserve some of it and give lots away to neighbors and family. The joy is in the doing -- playing in the dirt and watching it grow. Nothing like it.

Congratulations, fantastic to hear! I think it is also important to consider the things that you can’t put a financial figure on, like investing in your physical health (both through movement and putting healthy, natural food in your body instead of sprayed chemicals on produce), your mental health and becoming less reliant on supermarkets. Great video!

You know what is in the soil when you grow your own food, water storage sb #1 as good irrigation actually saves water.

Strawberries and perennial berries bushes are great for beginners. Berries got quiet expensive and bought ones arent even that great. And they are easy to use up, compared with lettuce etc. Many can be planted in pots, so the level of initial investment is really low. And who doesnt love eating ripe strawberries right from the plant? <(") Additionally starting with a herbgarden is also great, same reasoning. They re getting more expensive and having them fresh in your garden at all time is quiet a bonus. And many herbs a pretty easy and cheap to cultivate. Cheers

So my version if this is kind if a big middle finger to all the things i hear. Currently it is 20 degrees F(USA) so -like 6 or so in C. I live in an apartment in the middle of a city. I currently have a a polka dot plant, jade plant, bamboo, and a few succulents. A week ago i decided to experiment a little, i went to dollar tree and picked up some seed packs for $1.25 and in a large pot that i have next to my house plants i set the grow lamp to cover it and i am now seeing my sprouts of carrots, radishes, and i will soon transplant a bush bean that i was germinating in a baggy with napkin. Im literally gardening and growing my own food for the first time completely indoors. If you have any bit of garden space or even a patio, theres no excuse, you can do it

Seed sowing isnt an example of a softskill it's more a hardskill, knowledge etc. Softskills are social based like communication etc, not that that changes your point.

Sometimes all it takes is someone to encourage you to garden and give you some tips like this channel provides. Love those raised bed hoop covers. ❤

"Growing your own food is too expensive!" *The massive compost pile made entirely out of weeds, leftover food, coffee grounds, free manure, leaves, used animal bedding, rainwater and my own pee in question:*

Seeds are dirt cheap, dirt is free, water is free, labor is free. It's only expensive if you make it expensive.

Wow... Do you still get a pack of seed for a pound? Here the price has gone ridiculous. Between 4 and 7 pounds is normal. Yesterday I looked at tomatoe seed and nearly stopped breathing when I noticed the price: 16,48 pound for 5 seed. 😳

I worry about these metal beds. In the height of summer don’t they scorch the plants roots?

So I have some knowledge but here in London, I’m not sure when to sow my veg as My house is cold and not warm enough to grow seedlings

Love the video. Love the small, but productive, scale you’re showing. I’d like to input though that unless you’re adding a lot of extra things to your compost that hasn’t been grown in the garden (store bought veggie scraps, foraged weeds etc) you’ll very quickly run into problems with soil depletion. You will eventually need to amend the soil with something - bags of compost, organic fertiliser (like chicken poo pellets, fish blood and bone etc)

First year I did a small garden and I saved almost $1000 on my grocery bills.

Thats a lot of free labour.

I (in the Channel Islands) still had strawberries ripening in the first week of December in 2024. It was insane. They weren't great and there weren't many of them, but they were enough to add a bit of interest to a drink or a pudding.

thanks for taking the time to measure the harvest and its value I mostly grow tomatoes here in Spain, and I haven't made the numbers but last year we had tomatoes for months. Not just for us but for neighbors and friends too. We haven't bought a tomato in months yet we have been eating them pretty much daily so my guess is that it was probably very worth it. Not doing it for the money though, just trying to make use of what I have, spending time in the garden, learning and reducing carbon footprint a tiny bit.

What kind of shit job do you have that requires 90 hours a week in 2025? It's not 1800 ffs, if you worked 13 hours per day for 7 days a week , not including travel , how would you be gardening in daylight , I smell a rat Why do people lie about how many hours they work?

How did you tackle slugs and other plant eating insects?

Great stuff. I would love to do more, but my cat digs up any soil that isn't covered, makes the garden a right mess having canes and plastic mesh all over the place.

Excellent motivational video. Personally I'd encourage fewer leafy veg for the noobs, due to loss from slug and bird attacks and grow more "happy" veg like peas, beans, spuds, pak choi and rainbow chard. Sometimes I feel that those who would benefit most from growing veg are the least likely to try, so this video is very important. Well done..

What lovely neat allotment plots so very different from our allotments. Great to have helpers on your allotment, team work! 👍😃 Awww so nice to have a great allotment community, nice flowers for Kate awww that's so nice 😍 Another fab video Andy ❤

An amazingg project, well done Andy 👍 👏👏👏 Did you do the same last year? The savings would have been so much more now that you have your raised beds in place. 👍😃