Grow your own
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This post from Bonetired about the lack of taste in supermarket food has reminded me to take some photos of the plants outside my home.
I don't have a garden, just a tiny yard which only gets direct sunlight between the hours of 1-3pm...just enough for me to sunbathe, that is when it's not raining. It's a good job I'm so petite as I doubt anyone over about 5'4 would have enough room to lie out there!
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Such limited space is no barrier to growing food though, and as a result I have plants in pots growing outside the front of the house as well as at the back. Alongside the flowers are tomato plants, carrots and lettuce sown deliberately to produce a constant supply of baby leaves rather than full plants.
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Inside on a window sill there are chilli's and peppers, and in the back more tomatoes, various herbs and some garlic.
The taste is incredible, and all for just a few pounds for all the seeds and very little effort (other people do the lifting, which to them is not heavy!). I wonder how popular growing your own food in this way will become as food prices continue to rise?
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