The Food Club

Setting a Budget for Your Project

Posted on 28. May, 2009 by Justin.

I’ve been asked by quite a few people what I’ve paid for the work I’ve done in my garden. I had a budget of £1000 in my head before I started this year but thought you might all be interested in seeing how it all worked out. 
Greehouse Purchase - £550 
Removal of my old Shed, Flattening [...]

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Share Your Garden Success

Posted on 22. May, 2009 by Justin.

I’m interested in hearing from some fellow gardeners about what they are doing in their garden. In particular if you could send some photos I would love to write a post to inspire others.
What can you send?

Gardeners growing in containers
Window Sill Gardening
Big Projects
Small Project
Established Gardens

I hope to get the photos published in a post in [...]

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Raised Beds are Filled with Soil

Posted on 21. May, 2009 by Justin.

As you can see from my previous post I’ve recently installed raised beds. Building the beds has been the easy part, the hard part has been moving soil in my garden to fill the beds. I’ve had to buy 8 bags of top soil and 3 bags of compost extra to fill the beds. Each [...]

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Building Raised Beds

Posted on 25. Apr, 2009 by Justin.

I’ve been battling for the last few years to improve the quality of my soil with little success. As a result I realised it was time to experiment with some raised beds. This will quickly solve all my heavy soil issues and provide a fantastic growing medium. 
I have two major problems ahead:

I already have veg [...]

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Greenhouse Staging

Posted on 23. Apr, 2009 by Justin.

As you will see from my other blog posts, I’ve recently had a greenhouse built. The main difficulty is that I didn’t have a suitable work top so I decided to order some aluminium staging. I had put some temporary shelves up but these just weren’t cutting the mustard. 
With great excitement I took delivery of [...]

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The Saga of a Greenhouse

Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Justin.

As you will see from my last blog post I had my greenhouse arrive last month with great excitement. Unfortunately I had to wait between the delivery and the workmen arriving to put it up but at long last the work started! They were tasked with removing one of my sheds, putting in a base [...]

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