Don't let your bumper harvest and hard work go to waste. Why not get together with others in your town. village or even city and swap produce from the garden?
This year has been one of the most talked about seasons for grow your own vegetables and fruit. Garden centres have reported, despite the recession which has grounded other luxury brands, sales of vegetable growing related products are up. Seed suppliers tell a similar story as the world gets gripped by the 'dig for victory' bug.
It is easy to over produce. A hundred seeds in the palm of your hand looks minuscule when compared to one hundred lettuce or tomato plants. Don't throw away your surplus stock; maybe visit a local old peoples home with a weekly box or perhaps you know of a few individual pensioners who might benefit from a little fresh veg.
The next best thing would be a swapping group or club. With so many social networking sites or blogs it would be easy to set up a small (or large) group to exchange crops that have been grown to excess.
For example you may grown a few hundred too many courgettes and someone else done the same with tomatoes. It would be easy to exchange one for the other.
I remember how Mr Gale of Drift Road would put out a box of apples each day from the children leaving Blackmoor School. We used to pass and collect an apple or two and all of the apples were collected from the trees in his back garden.
If you do swap or want to swap your fresh veggie produce give me a shout and I can add something to Landscape Juice for you.
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