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35 FRUIT & VEGES TO SAVE YOU MONEY

- Recommendations and tips from expert gardeners around New Zealand.

STORY: JO MCCARROLL

Afew weeks ago I wrote in NZ Gardener’s weekly e-newsletter that I believed it was possible and – controversially – not even that difficult to grow some of your own food and help stretch your food budget. I am not suggesting you’d be self-sufficient or anything like it, you understand. Just that some crops are easy-peasy to grow and/or store and preserve to help you bulk up meals or add a punch of flavour to budget-friendly ingredients. We got a huge response from readers: mainly agreeing, often suggesting the money-saving crops they grew. So I thought I’d ask a few of my expert gardening mates what they found was best to grow at home to save money and here are their suggestions, plus some I recommend myself. There’s so many reasons to grow your own of course, and saving money is just one of them. But with the cost of living going up (and up!), it would be great to see more Kiwis get growing. So do you have a budget-boosting crop you swear by we have left out? Let me know at mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz.

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