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A year ago today I started working on my market garden business - been bloody hard work, but I can honestly say I have no regrets, even if the weather was a bitch last year, and three crops failed to produce anything worth selling. Starting from a bare field, it was hard to know what would grow well, what would sell, demand for veg boxes etc, but if I have learned one thing above all else, it's that I need to grow more veg !!!! And that can only be a good thing. I'm up to 50 boxes a week now and if I get another twenty or so, I'll employ someone for two days a week to make up and deliver them for me.

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Rat

British by birth
Scottish by the Grace of God

Blog updated Wednesday November 13th

Nice one Rat. Where there's muck there's brass!

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Well done Rat, we may come up and take a peek in the autumn and relive you of one of those boxes.

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Kindest regards, David.

http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

Well done Rat, you should definately be very proud of yourself
A double reason to be celebrating this weekend?

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

That's lovely, glad your it's working out for you. Can I enquire, what brought you to start your market gardening business?

congrats on your success, you have worked hard for it though, well done

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The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

..and what a difference a year make rat...business up by ???% and family up by 33.3% !!!

Well done that man! Hard work in all seasons though, I should think. I joined in March last year and I remember in the early summer you leaving messages at ridiculous times of the night that you'd just finished work. You deserve all the success.

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.vegheaven.blogspot.com

Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake)

Congrats on your 1st year, roll on a successful year of crops for yu

Happy Anniversary Rat. Here's to better growing weather this year!

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Well done Rat - going from strength to strength. Great to hear of someone making a success doing their own thing .... more power to you this coming year.

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Life may not be the party we hoped for but since we're here we might as well dance

Well done SR, It must be very hard and intensive work but you made it . Congratulations !

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I grow, I pick, I eat ...

You deserve every success for all the hard work you've put into the business - I hope word gets around and you get more than the 20 extra boxes.

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Dwell simply ~ love richly