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One benefit of being out of work is I've had a lot more time for growing and preserving this year.
And I now have a lovely store of produce, marrows, pumpkins, pickled onions, gherkins and beetroot, "branston" pickle, jams, dried beans, dried peppers, chillis and aubergines, dried apples, onions, tomatoes, fresh onions and garlic. The freezers are stuffed full too, lots of lovely passata, diced carrots, celery, peas, broad beans, parsnips and fennel with blackberries, apples, red,black,white currants, gooseberries and rhubarb.
There's spinach, swedes, celeriac, cabbage, kale , psb and chard still in the ground, with more carrots, beetroot, parsnips and potatoes, the yellow raspberries are still going strong. Winter salads will go in soon and my allotment neighbour still has some more apples for me and of course eggs from my lovely girls which means lots of main meals and cakes and icecream.
I've still got pear honey to make and pear butter with the remaining pear pulp and tomato ketchup with the last of the tomatoes.
I sort of hope I'll never have the chance to do it again but oh, roll on pension and retirement when I can really get stuck in.
All my stores are and have made a huge difference to my diet, couldn't afford to eat properly on my tiny benefit income at the moment. I've not worked out the cost benefit of my allotment and I have in the past spent a great deal of money on it (shed, greenhouse, raised beds, water butts, compost bins + everything else) but this year when I didn't have any money it all came sailing to my rescue, just some manure, seeds and slug pellets and a few plants was all it needed for a lovely store of grub. And as for my sanity and sense of purpose, oh, my lovely allotment!
love
Sue
And I now have a lovely store of produce, marrows, pumpkins, pickled onions, gherkins and beetroot, "branston" pickle, jams, dried beans, dried peppers, chillis and aubergines, dried apples, onions, tomatoes, fresh onions and garlic. The freezers are stuffed full too, lots of lovely passata, diced carrots, celery, peas, broad beans, parsnips and fennel with blackberries, apples, red,black,white currants, gooseberries and rhubarb.
There's spinach, swedes, celeriac, cabbage, kale , psb and chard still in the ground, with more carrots, beetroot, parsnips and potatoes, the yellow raspberries are still going strong. Winter salads will go in soon and my allotment neighbour still has some more apples for me and of course eggs from my lovely girls which means lots of main meals and cakes and icecream.
I've still got pear honey to make and pear butter with the remaining pear pulp and tomato ketchup with the last of the tomatoes.
I sort of hope I'll never have the chance to do it again but oh, roll on pension and retirement when I can really get stuck in.
All my stores are and have made a huge difference to my diet, couldn't afford to eat properly on my tiny benefit income at the moment. I've not worked out the cost benefit of my allotment and I have in the past spent a great deal of money on it (shed, greenhouse, raised beds, water butts, compost bins + everything else) but this year when I didn't have any money it all came sailing to my rescue, just some manure, seeds and slug pellets and a few plants was all it needed for a lovely store of grub. And as for my sanity and sense of purpose, oh, my lovely allotment!
love
Sue
, I'm out of work (still) benifits are as you say, "not good" and I think my garden is probably one of the only things that's keep me from climbing the walls, I'm of out this morning to collect even more "free" blackberry's, rowans, crab apples, and what ever else I see on my travels...good job I'm taking the car 
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