Second year of gardening with our little allotment in the Netherlands. Before that, we learned a bit with our balcony, but we couldn’t grow much. We’re very happy with our harvest, even though next year we’ll plant fewer zucchinis and cucumbers because we had to give a lot away to our neighbors/friends/family!
This year, we weighed everything, and I checked the prices of organic vegetables at the supermarket and at organic/local stores (here in the Netherlands) to get an idea of the value of it all, and it's really not bad—around €500! This year, we only had to spend a maximum of €40, for:
- seeds
- a bucket of dried manure
- bamboo sticks
- hay for mulching
- €10 contribution for the community garden
However, last year was more of an investment with the wood and good-quality compost to fill the beds.
We gave some away, but we basically barely had to buy any veggies for three months, and we preserved a lot for winter. We made a lot of tomato sauce and ratatouille, dehydrated zucchini slices and made and pickled cucumbers.
I didn’t include the chili peppers that we’ve just started to harvest, as we planted them pretty late after harvesting the potatoes.
The quality is so much better than what you get at the supermarket—here, everything is grown in greenhouses and has no taste at all…
I wanted to share this to show that even with a very small space, you can grow a lot of food!
by Specialist-Brain-919