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I love the creativity of gardening, finding different ways of growing my own as cheaply as possible. Having grown some food in corners of gardens and on windowsills since my teens, I created my first veg plot while pregnant with my daughter (she is now 26) with a budget of £0, using my grandad’s old tools and seeds and transplants donated by friends and neighbours, plus potatoes I’d found sprouting in the veg basket. That year I gathered harvests of herbs, tomatoes, beans, strawberries, potatoes and sunflowers, all grown for free.