The essence of owning an allotment is having available fresh home grown fruit and vegetables any time you want them. This however requires a little effort and you must be able to give up some spare time at the weekends or through the summer week nights to do some weeding or hoeing. This can only take a few minutes but keeping on top of things means that when you do visit your plot you won’t have an overbearing task ahead of you.

Most people who own a plot pride themselves in the fact that most things they have or use at the plot have either been given to them or they have acquired them for very little money. After all there is no point growing loads of produce that is immensely more expensive than if you had bought it from the supermarket. Freebies can range from seeds given away by newspapers, old fence panels from home to make a dividing fence at the allotment or free promotional mugs given away by a company who want to get their name known.

You should always try to use whatever you get for free because keeping costs at a minimum will mean that any produce that you do grow will invariably be at a lower cost than you can buy.