:nike: I found the following information very interesting, and we plotters seem to be very keen on our beans!!
A recent Government survey shows that the proportion of home back garden or allotment grown fruit and vegetables, has almost doubled in the last four years. This is likely to be due to the rapidly rising cost of shop bought fruit and vegetables, as well as the various TV programs. The proportion of different fruit and vegetables that are now home grown, is surprisingly large. Beans 33%, Potatoes 7%, Tomatoes 4%, Apples 9%, Soft fruit 10%, giving an overall figure of 5% for fruit and vegetables that are home grown. Interestingly, about 46% of growers on allotments are women.
Do you have an url to these survey results? Very interesting, thank you.
Was this a UK survey ? ...... :coffee2:
That will just make the big food and supermarket companies lean on their tame friends in government to stop us doing it.
oops sorry I wanted to use this as a quote and accidently clicked on edit- sorry Tosh
Quote from: Toshofthe Wuffingas on January 09, 2013, 17:42:59
That will just make the big food and supermarket companies lean on their tame friends in government to stop us doing it.
oops sorry I wanted to use this as a quote and accidently clicked on edit- sorry Tosh
What I wanted to say was -such cynicism in one so young!! :wave: - you are as bad as me- I can just see Tesco buying up ALL the available land to stop us growing anywhere!
I saw it in the Times, but google it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255043/Homegrown-fruit-veg-menu-Britons-turn-allotments-save-money-struggling-economy.html
Or here http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Society/article1184881.ece
Quote from: realfood on January 09, 2013, 19:11:07
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255043/Homegrown-fruit-veg-menu-Britons-turn-allotments-save-money-struggling-economy.html
Thank you Realfood. Have finally read it.
With the horsemeat scandal, growing awareness that big food companies cannot be trusted and rising food costs I would not be surprised if growing our own food increases further
Did anyone take part in the survey?
We do a government income/expenditure survey every few years, cannot remember question about about growing your own. There might have been a general one, but certain not divided by crops.