GROW YOUR OWN

ALMOST 98% of the people in the UK buy at least three Apounds of potatoes every day. We can’t be arsed to do the calculation, but that must be thousands, perhaps millions of tons of the knobbly tubers every year at a cost of thousands, if not millions of pounds to spud-loving Brits. But not many people know that instead of buying these versatile vegetables, you can actually grow them! Here, former Bank of England chief economist ANDY HALDANE explains the economics of growing your own spuds, and how you can save yourself a fortune. “I DID economics at the Bank of England for years, and believe you me, things never come down in price – and that includes spuds. A pound of ‘taters costing 70p today, will cost 75.74p next year,…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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