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Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

We grow our own fruit and vegetables for our meals for as much of the year as we can. Without a greenhouse we have to buy shop food in the winter months but in the spring, summer and autumn we often have enough to share with family and friends.

Read about growing your fruit and vegetables here on my growing your own food pages.

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Ordering Plants and Seeds, the cost of postage.

The Dilemma of Ordering Plants.

If you like growing things as I do, being able to shop online brings a new dimension to shopping for plants and seeds. But there is one thing I hate about it and that I feel reduces the desire to click the final buy button to complete the purchase. When the postage is added o the garden products I have selected and then t the final stage and the additional cost of postage/delivery is more than I thought it would be.
That is the point when I sometimes, walk away to make a cup of tea. There are times when that added on delivery cost makes me decide to buy locally instead.

I would like to have a postage/delivery 'tally' showing on the websites, alongside the things we place in the virtual shopping basket. Visiting online plant sellers and seed merchants is a pleasure, I just find the delivery cost a bit of a pain and more than I had estimated sometimes.

a healthy potato plant in flower

a healthy potato plant in flower
photo of potatoes in flower

home grown carrots.. grown from seed

home grown carrots.. grown from seed
photo of my first bunch of carrots 2009

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful
Home Grown Fruit can be made into delicious compote